Word: selfishnesses
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...spirit, of civil rights laws." Blacks see Nixon, claimed Clifford Alexander Jr., former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, as "actively against our goals." The National Urban League's Harold Sims charged that under Nixon "the nation is still in the grip of a not silent but selfish majority...
...with her bombshell, Atlas Shrugged, which has since provoked a divorce of the libertarian from the conservative right and made Rand into an arch-hero or arch-villain, to those on the right. The novel portrays the fundamental issue of our time--and all time--as that of selfishness versus altruism, liberty versus tyranny, capitalism versus socialism. She begins from the premise that man is an end in himself, and that his morality should ultimately bring him happiness. The pursuit of happiness, Rand says further, is a selfish drive. If one attacks selfishness as being immoral, one attacks human fulfillment...
...financial opportunism, bribery and altruism, and failing to distinguish between them, you do a grave disservice to those of us in the U.S. who spend our money to express a point of view that we believe to be for the good of our nation-money that has no selfish motivation whatsoever...
...Family, written by 21 eminent churchmen. "Premarital and extramarital sexual intercourse may well be-and more frequently are than not-acts of sin," says the booklet. But it adds that these acts are sinful not because they are intrinsically wrong, but because they are often engaged in for selfish reasons by men and women who are sinful by nature. A church convention has urged Lutherans to study the booklet, while also passing a statement affirming that "sexual intercourse outside the context of marriage union is morally wrong...
...unclear whether these politically unsound actions resulted from idealism or selfishness, but in either case the liberal community found itself suddenly faced not only with the realization that McCarthy was not the hero they had envisioned, but also with the recognition that there are no clear-cut boundaries between idealistic, selfish, and political actions...