Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
Professor Allport, "Egoism as Basis of Behavior," Emer...
...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...
...work-a-day world, their careers and feelings possess a peculiar fascination. An atmosphere of fairy story illusion pervades all action and this atmosphere provides a desired relief both from the crudities of reality and the harshness of "realistic" plays. Theirs are adult passions curiously interwoven with a childlike egoism and sublime indifference to realities. Underlying their tenseness and melodrama is a saving realization that after...
...that' or 'The Lord made me what I am,' which has some charm, perhaps, when associated with sweet seventeen but other wise is pretty sickening." This self-harmonizing, self-training, is for the Abbe the beginning of wisdom, and the Good. Though "a commonwealth of intelligent egoism has been built by the millions, and a skillful combination of the idealism of the few with the contributions of the many has largely eliminated from it all that might cause irritation and shame," there is plenty of cause for irritation and shame, says Abbe Dimnet, if a man will...