Word: unselfishness
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Alfred Noyes, British poet (The High wayman) now living in California, advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen, onetime co-columnist with Drew Pearson (Washing ton Merry-Go-Round), lost his lower right arm by amputation after being wounded in Germany, captured, freed three days later by advancing...
...artist is a selfish person whom we like, and the philanthropist an unselfish person whom we do not like."—:A. Clutton-Brock...
...Naturally we are not unselfish . . . we long to have a real German boy to press to our bosom. Don't be shy. Your wife, your sister, or your sweetheart is also...
...longer look to Mr. Roosevelt for great, unselfish leadership in foreign affairs (witness his petulant attitude toward General de Gaulle), let alone national affairs, for he is obviously too preoccupied with playing the starring role in the great world drama of intrigue and power politics to speak with candor on crucial issues, to answer the searching questions of the world's bewildered and suffering people...
...occupied by the job of being my own keeper. To these add the noble ethics and the splendid tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence and the good business principles of the Mormons; the gentle humility and ordered humanity of the Quakers, plus the militant zeal and unselfish devotion of those shock troops of the Lord-the Salvation Army, who fight in the trenches of sin's no-man's land to reclaim the tortured souls and clothe the naked bodies of those whom the rest of a snobbish world forgot...