The solidarity of nations should always prevail over national egoism.

Humans are capable of far more than selfishness and materialism.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act.

But what they see is small mindedness and the pursuit of narrow self interest.

The Chinese are comforted in their self image by the world s combination of admiration for their dynamism, greed for the market they constitute, and apprehension for the competition they represent.

To add insult to injury, self interest has been portrayed as altruism.

Egoism and self interest prevented them from realizing that Puerto Rico and the United States were married and their divorce would be harmful to both.

Perhaps there are some non utopian ways of transcending selfish interests and doing what is necessary.

But we cannot be complacent that the forces of national egoism will remain in check.

And yet the behavior of the EU and its most important member states has been irresolute and dithering, owing to national egotism and a breathtaking absence of leadership.

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

The diary contains about 200,000 words describing selfless thoughts with enthusiastic comments on Mao and the inspiring nature of the Party.

The Almighty placed humans on earth to develop it, to institutionalize justice, to overcome their egoistic tendencies and to praise no lord but the Almighty.

Among the French of 1835, however, the doctrine of self interest had produced egotism no less blind.

Nor can we overlook the banal bargaining of European leaders, the quarrels over budgets, and the rise of national egoisms whenever elections loom.

And the profound realization for me is that, if this works, the concept of the selfish gene gets kicked up a level, and we really start talking about selfish matter.

Such beggar thy neighbor policies in the 1930 s aggravated and deepened the Great Depression.

The Bolivian people has gone through difficult times recently and is selflessly and maturely reinvigorating its democratic process as an essential element of life in our Republic.

A good illustration of our commitment is the unselfish contribution of our armed and security forces in several parts of the world, including Haiti, the Balkans and Afghanistan.

Anyway, that completely unselfish and fruitful travesty of logic is dressed up as a total absence of national ambition and as total concern for the welfare of the general membership.

We recognize the selfless commitment of United Nations staff, and strongly condemn all violent attacks against the security of personnel engaged in United Nations operations.

In the current climate of anxiety and uncertainty, policymakers must ensure strong communication and coordination, avoid beggar thy neighbor policies, and guard against protectionism.

For the first time in its history, the very continuance of the European project is at stake. And yet the behavior of the EU and its most important member states has been irresolute and dithering, owing to national egotism and a breathtaking absence of leadership.

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.

In view of some big countries intense national egoism, the failure to agree on the EU s 2007 2013 budget could have ominous political consequences for Europe.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act. Monti should not risk European stability for his personal benefit.

These barriers are supported by deep pocketed, self serving corporations and lobby groups, and defended by politicians who are scared that the redistribution of jobs, income, and wealth resulting from freer trade will reduce their chances of remaining in power.

Indeed, single mothers are the new maternal ideal women whose maternal drive is so selfless and intense that they choose to raise children even under the burden of their solitary status.

In Europe, bickering between leaders revealed the lack of solidarity underpinning European ideals and gave full view to the persistence of national egoisms against which the European project had managed to define itself since the end of World War II.

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.

Europe s selfish agricultural policies aggravate poverty in North Africa and the Middle East, where the population doubled to 350 million during the last 30 years and is forecast to more than double again by 2030.

Even so, East Central Europeans, who are still recovering from the terrible political calamities caused by Europe s historical demons, find the intensity of their Western counterparts national egoism a bit frightening.

By agreeing to significant compromises, the leaders of some new member states were, among other things, trying to show that rekindling strong national egoism in Europe is a dangerous, if not uncontrollable, game.

Despite some of the more fevered declarations made by Kouchner and other human rights activists, states do not tend to behave altruistically, and electorates do not tend to wish to see their sons and daughters kill and die in altruistic wars.

The western Balkan applicants have thus had to contend with a process that is now managed on a more intergovernmental basis than was the big bang of 2004, and which has, at times, been held hostage to member states selfish bilateral demands.

Political questions or selfish national interests should not be obstacles to the international community's taking action through the Security Council, including through the application of the principle of the responsibility to protect, especially in situations when governmental institutions are unable or unwilling to implement feasible measures for the protection of civilians.

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.

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.

Some deficiencies in this stage of development are that children who are about 3 4 years old often display what is called egocentrism, which means the child is not able to see someone else s point of view, they feel as if every other person is experiencing the same events and feelings that they are experiencing.