Word: selfishnesses
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...urge out professors to pause for a moment, to descend from the high loft of prestige, and to show a little understanding. As my roommate gently put it, "I think the faculty forgets that the college exists solely for us." I don't want the students to become as selfish as the faculty appears to be; that would accomplish nothing. Only compromise can resolve the calendar and Reading Period dilemma, but when one side refuses to moderate its views or simply to scknowledge the other's dissatisfaction, it destroys the feasibility of compromise...
...point is not whether we humans are basically kind or cruel, civilized or bestial, altruistic or selfish. We are all these things. The point is. we can choose among them...
...meant they had a stake, however small and easily manipulated, in their city. What is unfortunate is that many mistook that stake and all its varying degrees of convertibility into power for evidence that Chicago actually "worked" as a city, rather than just a means of providing for their selfish patronage interests...
...leaders' upset about Bell's mixed record on civil rights during his 14 years on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editorial outrage ran the political gamut. The New York Times's James Reston blasted the nomination as "insensitive, willful, stubborn and even selfish." The Wall Street Journal found it "all too reminiscent of the Kennedy-Nixon tradition of choosing an Attorney General...
...humans is going to have to change sooner or later, whether it is economics, law or international relations. The reason is that social theory must rest on some conception of what the organism is attempting to do." In other words, mankind must learn to understand the drive of its selfish genes...