Sentence examples for selfish concerns from inspiring English sources

And when experienced, compassion overwhelms selfish concerns and motivates altruistic behavior.

"Those selfish concerns gnawed away at you and you explained your problems to Ogundele.

It has long included character development — turning the soul away from selfish concerns and toward community.

With the anthrax fear, some people have resorted to their selfish concerns, exhausting the supply of Cipro, as people hoard it for themselves and their families.

For Rieff, there is no union; America is just like any other empire, acting out of selfish concerns, and its moral fantasies make its power only more dangerous.

The resulting turbulence is often too much for those who worry that Americans, preoccupied with their own selfish concerns, do not worry enough.

"The Transparent Man" has a respect for the reader's perception that has almost been lost from contemporary poetry, with all its prosy ease and selfish concern.

Worse still, Mr. Reagan defined America's strategic interests in terms only of minerals and sea lanes, ranking that selfish concern ahead of the increasingly bloody evils of oppressive, state-sponsored racism.

Although many critics nitpicked Portman for changing his views only out of what was deemed a selfish concern for his own gay son, that's precisely the way many people are illuminated and tugged along: by emotion, not abstraction; by what's immediate and personal, not what's foreign and theoretical.

The last of these one might think would lead to greater concern about growing social breakdown, global warming, population concerns, but actually seems sadly often to just result in a selfish concern for one's own children's future and blow the rest of them.

If someone other than me were psychologically continuous tomorrow with me as I am now, he would have what matters to me, and I ought to transfer my selfish concern to him.