Sentence examples for us selfishness from inspiring English sources

Compassion unites us; selfishness divides us.

Diplomats and ex-generals raged against US selfishness in leaving Pakistan to sort out the post-Soviet mess in Afghanistan; journalists and NGO workers described in anguished tones how the CIA-sponsored jihad strangled Pakistan's democracy, endowing the military intelligence establishment with a sinister extra-constitutional authority.

On long reflection, I have decided that our evolutionary weaknesses, the flaws that will destroy us, are selfishness and lack of imagination.

Did not Richard Dawkins teach us that selfishness was built into our very genes?

Meanwhile shows like Desperate Housewives tell us that selfishness is good and there's no such thing as too much greed and status mind you, the same greed that is keeping the Hollywood execs from sharing the wealth with writers.

Evolutionarily speaking, the flow often works in an effort to bring out the best in us: to help us organize, suppress selfishness, innovate, survive, and thrive.

I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death.

Let us fast from selfishness and self-centered behavior.

It takes us out of selfishness and neediness, and in the process we see our own self-centeredness in greater perspective.

A man can never be good of anything unless he gives us all the selfishness and begins to think about serving the God that sent him and the humanity.

I use the term generally to refer to whatever motivates us, which ranges from selfishness to altruism and everything in between and at right angles.