Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These dangers can be lessened only if both owners and managers feel that property involves obligations; that it is not held for purely selfish gratification, but is affected with a trust for the community at large, to be discharged with a conscientious regard for the public welfare; that it is not merely the size of the dividends, but the service to our fellow men for which we must account. If we are moral beings we must assume that we hold property, and every other power that we possess, to promote moral ends; that it is not enough to comply with...
...managed as he ought to manage it himself; and a man who manages the property of others ought to do so with as large a sense of moral obligation as if it were his own. This may seem a paradox, but it is not. The temptation to be selfish for one's own profit is stronger, but for a good man it is easier to resist, than the temptation to be selfish in acting for the benefit of others. I am not speaking to bad men, to dishonest men, or men of hard selfishness; but to honest, upright and large...
...country. The object of the New Movement is: first, to give each voter a choice in the election of officers; second, to prevent small bodies of men, or corporations, from running the government to suit themselves; and third, to prevent the demagogue from exploiting the government for his own selfish end; in short to develop a government in which the people govern. Winston Churchill first attempted to accomplish this in New Hampshire in 1906, when he fought a losing but satisfactory fight against three other candidates, and was defeated by only a very narrow margin. The fight marked the beginning...
...time or another in his life. We are now in a new era, an era of economic and political changes, an era of radicalism. But what is it that makes this era, that that keeps it alive? It is the demagogues, the men who are crafty, frequently selfish and regardless of public opinion, but always alive,--very much alive. The are the ones who are looking upwards and ahead. It is the tide of progress that has brought the Radical to the fore. There has been a wave of Materialism; there has been a wave of Populism; but each...
...down to the facts of life. Religious service can be carried on in a hundred different ways, and its rightful interpretation should be left to one's conscience. Modern life is essentially rational and men are judged by their achievements and not by catechisms, the only heathen being the selfish, for the test of Christianity is not what we have but what we do with what we have. There is little use in trying to reach an ultimate religious unity when we take into consideration the differences of environment, race and character between one man and another, and when...