Word: selfishnesses
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...nation today we need moral unity. We need a unity beneath and above politics. We need a unity which underlies and over-arches our competitive struggle for material, selfish advantage...
After a year's study of altruism, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, yesterday reaffirmed that a selfish world will never have peace...
...those about him, there is another situation which he faces that is not usually mentioned. The unselfish patients would feel a moral obligation to have themselves 'eliminated' in order that funds earmarked for their terminal care might be used by their families for other purposes; while the selfish patient, enjoying the sacrifices he imposed on his family, would never ask for his own death, merciful or otherwise...
...Russians ... An aloof policy of containment . . . [He thinks] that the executive branch ... must have the right of uninterrupted private discussion and negotiation . . . even if it's about such things as the hydrogen bomb . . . While [Acheson] does not dislike reporters personally, he apparently thinks they are presumptuous, superficial, often selfish and indifferent to the public interest, irresponsible . . . much too distrustful and skeptical of officials, and far too interested in being first . . . rather than being right...
...tribe has the god it deserves, for gods are made in the image of those that believe in them. Therefore the stupid have a stupid god, the intelligent an intelligent god, the good a good god, the wicked a wicked god. The god of the white men is jealous, selfish and greedy because they themselves are jealous, selfish and greedy . . . The white men's religion is designed to restrain the wickedness of a very wicked people-and a people exceedingly afraid of dying. Their love of their god has been built on their fear of death...