Word: selfishnesses
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...farmer's demands are an attempt to do this; they show either an astonishing ignorance of banking theory and practice, or a disregard of the public interest for selfish aims. We have had too much of price-fixing; it is to the nation's interest that the crops should be moved for consumption at prices fixed in an open and free market...
...readers with very little intelligence in your editorial on "Harding and Coolidge" in today's issue. Why assume that the majority of the people of this great country of ours regard their own good at the expense of the good of the world? And why suppose that the most selfish American does not realize that the betterment and peace of the world in general and of the United States in particular will indubitably make for his own betterment and peace? It is certainly a clever bit of editorial burlesque to state your belief in. "The lasting establishment of the League...
Whether the course be justified or no, it seems evident that the majority of the voters in this country will take the cost of living to be the paramount issue of the November elections. The average man is a selfish beast, and holds his material comfort at home above the welfare of his more distant neighbors. Self-interest is a natural instinct, and by more than one token is it apparent that the hopes of business prosperity, more nearly equable tariff adjustments, trade stimulation and national economy which the election of a Republican ticket seems to insure, will prevail over...
...reason for this is the undeniable paradox, that those who give most to their college are also those who get the most from it. Thus, for purely selfish reasons, it would seem advisable to become an active rather than a passive member of the college community...
...experience of mankind that liberty in the long run cannot be secure without compelling administration to adhere to accepted and declared principles. If administrative action is fettered by minute requirements imposed by the legislature, the opportunities for impeding litigation will leave vast opportunities to the mercy of the cunning, selfish and avaricious, and the means designed for protection will defeat their own purposes. On, the other hand, present methods are obviously crude and tend toward an intolerable personal government...