Humans are capable of far more than selfishness and materialism.

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

But do not let selfishness and intolerance deform the Arab world.

Since then, we have turned away from advocacy of selfishness, but we have not recovered an independent moral language.

Chinese cynicism and spontaneous selfishness, however, is now tempered by what they perceive as growing recognition of their unique status.

In this area, too, Europe has taken the lead, especially concerning global warming, showing that petty selfishness can be put aside to achieve a common good.

Greed, selfishness and irrationality will visit catastrophe upon us, from which those who refuse to accept a different world born of solidarity and justice will not be spared.

And let us give up our narrow selfishness in order to embrace change, and in order to celebrate with the people of that region a great future and hope and tolerance.

So even if people did have impulses towards selfishness or greed, that's not the only thing in the skull, and there are other parts of the mind that can counteract them.

Ours is a civilization that accepts selfishness towards one's own family and group that tolerates, with few exceptions, autonomy in moral matters and that considers blasphemy, criticism of authority, and even civil disobedience fundamental freedoms.

But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.

This is perfect in that it clearly opposes self centeredness and selfishness to compassion, the concern for others, and, further, it indicates that those caught in the cycle of self concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

Drafted exclusively from the standpoint of the powerful, it reflects only the goals, intentions and interests of the latter, sugar coated with a rhetoric which, for us, the countries and peoples of the South  the decisive majority in the Assembly speaks of selfishness, disdain, incomprehension and lack of interest.

This has been the summit of selfishness, arrogance and lies a summit at which some have sought to present as a great achievement the increase in official development assistance through the cancellation of given amounts of foreign debt that debtor countries could not have paid in any case.

At the same time they denounced the selfishness of political parties, which so often exploit vulnerable groups in order to win votes at election time they also found it regrettable that the speakers had not stressed more strongly the need to reinforce the power and presence of women in politics.

I remember when I started practicing Buddhism 14 years ago, and I was told that the end of this practice was to be happy, I said, How could you be happy and live in this world of suffering and live in this world of pain? I mistook happiness for a lot of other things, like numbness or decadence or selfishness.

But no, in our mind up there are a host of things going on that we don't always know how to bring to the person that we love, because we think love comes with selflessness and in fact desire comes with a certain amount of selfishness in the best sense of the word the ability to stay connected to one's self in the presence of another.