Sentences with phrase «sub-adolescent egoism»

The Jobs movie apparently captures his brutal egoism & inhumanity.

THAT is the pinnacle of arrogance and egoism.

And yet in this deeply Christian, extravagantly post-Christian nation of ours, a number of sincere believers find the life of Christ and his saints somehow compatible with the sterile, preening, sub-adolescent egoism of Objectivism.

You cant trancend your own egoism by cutting and pasting.

Deriving from the Latin alter, «other» — it refers to an orientation to the good of others rather than principally or exclusively to one's own good, as in egoism.

I do nt think I will see those in my lifetime but it is good to know that somewhere down the line humanity will give up fairy tales and egoism.

The belief in a personal god is no more and no less than human egoism, fuelled by a fear od death!

... It's the pastors Egoism, it's their insatiable hunger for power / authority mingled with greed.

Narcissistic egoism makes communion impossible, even communication becomes exceedingly difficult.

Also, developing ideals are corrupted by egoism.

In it, all distinction between egoism and disinterestedness tends to evaporate.

They have no intention of remaking the soul of humanity — only of harnessing human egoism and cultivating a better human nature.

The sources of corporate estrangement are the same as those that produce the estrangement of the individual; egoism, pride and the desire for power and domination by a group or groups of people.

The true self grows in inverse proportion to the growth of egoism.

Egoism is only an unproven theory adopted by the rich.

He tasted, sickeningly, the triteness of men's joys and sorrows, the mean egoism of their pursuits, the insipidity of their passions, the attenuation of their power to feel.

Egoism, whether personal or racial, has good reason to be thrilled at the idea of an individual element ascending, through its fidelity to life, to the uttermost development of all that is unique and incommunicable within itself.

He argues that we have come to a point where we must recognize that the secular values of egoism and contract and the ideology of contexualism simply can not sustain crucial aspects of our civilization.

At Judgement Day we will only come through when we have overcome our bad old nature through the power of Jesus death and resurrection — Jesus didn't die only for our forgiveness but also in order to set us free from egoism.

And under your influence and yours alone, the sheath of organic isolation and of wilful egoism which separates the monads from one another is cleft asunder and dissolves, and the multitude of souls rush on towards that union which is necessary for the maturity of the world.

He is that mightier life which inexorably brings death to our base egoism so as to draw into itself all our capacities for loving.

Neglect of education and the failure to understand may both be the result of egoism.»

These models, such as that of Carl Rogers, embody ethical egoism and reduce morality to the satisfaction of one's own personal needs.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Greed, lust, jealousy, envy, anger, pride, and egoism are the enemies of peace.

Observing that the rates of clinical depression in the U.S. have tripled in the past quarter century of increased choice, Schwartz echoes Durkheim's proposition that suicide rates are directly proportional to rates of egoism and anomie.

The problem common to most of our reasons for going to church (even the ones that seem good) is egoism: a selfish obsession with our own well - being and interests.

Egoism rests on a superstitious absolutizing of self - identity and consequent absolutizing of nonidentity with other persons....

Mere egoism is a vain self - addiction to one's own pleasure and comfort.

Where a given individual displays foolish altruism or egoism, it is because self - love and love for others are not given a proper balance; but it can not be the case that one or the other of these two fundamental aspects is altogether absent.

It requires humility to silence narcissism, to relinquish egoism.

Pure moral egoism is an extreme case of simplicity with minimal complexity in the moral sphere; extreme complexity without simplicity would be the acknowledgement of a wide array of agents, interests, and values with too little coordination to allow of selective response or action.2

Accountabilities in individualisms and of socialisms are but dogged increments that neither do well amidst the ever amassing fundaments of egoisms» parlored affluencies!

It is the domination of subjective - objective thinking that has produced the traditional but false dichotomy between «selfishness» and «unselfishness,» egoism and altruism.

On Tuesday, the governor of Tokyo apologized for saying the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of Japanese were divine retribution for national egoism.

The governor of Tokyo apologized on Tuesday for saying the earthquake and resulting tsunami that left thousands dead were divine punishment for Japanese egoism, a leading Japanese news service reported.

Therefore while egoism is the driving force of sin, dishonesty is its final expression.

Setting up an archive by mentioning in passing some of the relevant confusions, we can begin by noting that in ethics we have just seen simple location leading to radical ethical egoism.

On the contrary, Niebuhr argued, the collective egoism of class, race, and nation is more persistent than the self - regard of the individual.

Luther's insight that * sin * is not «man turned down toward the earth rather than up toward heaven» as the Catholic scholasticss taught; but was «man curved in upon himself» was an insight that has been confirmed by contemporary psychology in its teaching on narcissistic egoism.

If I am correct that there has been a narrowing of the horizons of concern in the American public, and a franker affirmation of individual egoism and of national self - interest as determinants of action, we need to ask why.

Peace needs to be built on a courageous revision of the inadequate ideology of egoism, strife and national superiority.

Such is really no responsibility at all, merely egoism scantily clad in the rhetoric of a hollow morality.

Even in the Catholic, and not only in the Protestant view of the relation between God and man the freedom of the latter as derived only from himself is guilty and imprisoned egoism; hence as far as he is concerned, this freedom refuses to accept God's self - communication and to let God be God.

It accuses the deliberate egoism of an economy... in which each is the enemy of the other, because his advantage is conditioned by the disadvantage or ruin of the other, and it demands an economy of solidarity of all, and of joy in work rather than in profit.

Since the struggle between the major powers will be with us for decades to come, he felt that a wise statecraft must take into account the collective egoisms of nations and the ideal of a tolerable mutuality.

Shortly after the Japanese quake and tsunami, the governor of Tokyo said publicly that the disaster was divine punishment for Japanese egoism, though he apologized for the remarks a day later.

Secondly, genuine freedom is the will to truth, because this frees every man from those interior dangers which threaten freedom more than all external restrictions, the dangers of one's own shortsightedness, of pride and a blinding egoism.

Trancend your egoism and free yourself from this dominion of satan.

Egoism and fiendishness in equal doses.