Meanings of human selfishness in English

Their own mainstream economic assumptions about human selfishness suggest they will not.

Is not this the history of human selfishness in every country?

Wipe out human selfishness, and the Sahara and other deserts.

He wondered if there was anything outside of human selfishness.

God is too often a convenient stalking-horse for human selfishness.

Its life depends upon intrigue, aggression, adroit combinations with other forms of human selfishness.

Never mind that there's zero scientific proof to show human selfishness provides an evolutionary advantage.

Its beginning-incorrupt legislation, watered stocks, human selfishness-wasinevitable.

One of the cruelest expressions of human selfishness is a failure to say thank you.

The young girl was in one of those unfortunate positions which human selfishness entails upon children.

That was his poor tribute to human selfishness; his last tender, jealous frailty as a father.

She had divined and accepted his character, in all its average human selfishness and faultiness, long ago.

Balzac has never drawn a more heart-moving figure, nor has he ever sounded more thoroughly the depths of human selfishness.

And do not call me a brute if I reach the conclusion that human selfishness is the hope of the race.

The emphasis on rules and punishment implied that morality's first concern was to rein in human selfishness and brutality rather than to enhance love.

Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.