Sentences with phrase «selfishness led»

The guy is pretty selfish on the ball and despite his talent his selfishness led to missed chances as opposed to him creating chances.

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The cause is human jealousy, greed, selfishness, pride, intolerance, arrogance, and many other human character traits that lead to humans being unkind to other humans.

Finally, legitimation of consumption can lead to the ratification of selfishness and to neglect of the poor.

The life which Christ asks us to lead is one which goes against the selfishness we find within us and one which goes against the values of this world.

In order to progress towards the ideal proposed by the religions the renunciation of selfishness by individuals at personal level should lead to a social concern for a positive loving caring for all, especially the many in dire need in our globalized society.

A short - sighted selfishness can indeed lead business people to think that it is in their interest to exclude others from the benefits of commercial, scientific, and technological advance.

This might lead to self - absorption, self - obsession, and selfishness.

When policies do not presume or promote objective values, the resulting moral relativism, instead of leading to a society that is free, fair, just and compassionate, tends instead to produce frustration, despair, selfishness and a disregard for the life and liberty of others.

Selfishness eventually leads to a weaker society as a whole.

«Maternal instincts lead women to show greater tenderness and less selfishness and to display these qualities towards her infants in an eminent degree».

The results show that while people are intuitively cooperative, challenging their belief in free will corrupts this behavior and leads to impulsive selfishness.

Many wonder how, if selection rewards the individual only for behavior that enhances his own survival and reproductive success, such pure selfishness can lead to any sound ethics.

Instead, psychopathy refers to particular personality traits such as irresponsibility, overconfidence, selfishness, or lack of empathy, which needn't arise to a level that leads to antisocial behavior.

When a new director casts himself as the lead in his own film, everyone kind of assumes that a fair piece of arrogance and selfishness is at play, especially when that lead role happens to have him making out with attractive ladies for most of the running time.

The star of Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols's sci - fi thriller about a father protecting his supernaturally - gifted son, talks to Henry Barnes about the selfishness of parenthood and with the US election looming, why troubled times lead us to blindly believe in saviours.

Aronofsky's dark vision that the selfishness of male artistic genius will lead to the destruction of the beloved family was told through a circular narrative structure.

There may be a limit when selfishness comes full circle and leads you right back to suffering.

If we took the lead, setting an example for outstanding moral behavior rather than setting an example of outstanding selfishness, there'd be more pressure on nations like China and India to step up to the plate and do the right thing.

However, love is stronger, and once ego and selfishness are overcome, living in crowded conditions can also cause a sense of community and lead to improvements in this area,» the encyclical will say.

Otherwise, the short - sightedness and selfishness of the current law firm culture will quickly and inevitably lead to its demise.

When Dr. John Gottman talks about the paradoxical need for selfishness in marriage, he speaks of just this, and adds, «Overwork and continual self - sacrifice lead to resentment, emotional distance, and loss of sexual intimacy.»

Such faultfinding could lead quite naturally to the belief associated with cynics of today that selfishness determines human behavior.»