Word: selfishness
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...strikes are a means to a good end--the betterment of the living conditions of the workingman--they fill, although crudely, a certain need, and are therefore in a measure instruments of good. That they are often justified is undeniable; that they sometimes serve selfish and corrupt ends is equally true...
There is evidently something wrong with the whole organization of the world's industry, and no patchwork methods are going to set it right. It is for a new system, a new universal institution that will do away with all the old cross purposes and selfish barriers in industrialism that the League for Industrial Democracy is working...
...place for the indulgence of "humours". That it has been so in the past may in great measure be responsible for the crime waves and slackening of the moral fibre that is apparent today. The teaching conditions throughout the country are pitiable enough without the additional charge of selfishness and thoughtlessness being laid upon the teachers themselves. So long as there is no willingness to improve these conditions, teaching will continue to be of a poor quality. As for the propagandists--for the merely thoughtless, a careful reading of Elyot and Ascham; for the purely selfish--discharge. An education which...
...Frank Vanderlip, who has been on the scene of action since the start, writing to the New York "World" declared that he was daily more thankful that the United States was not represented at the Conference. More recently, that everyone at Genoa is actuated by "a selfish nationalism shaped by domestic political necessities." True, but like most true facts it is not new; and historian will say that selfish nationalism had been the characteristic of European nations for some time. It is cropping out again now because the Genoa meeting is the largest since that at Paris, in which...
...services will be given alike to all its citizens because they are citizens, and not because they have any political pull. The greatest danger to which we come is from neglect, and from having our government pass into the hands of those who run it for their own selfish purposes by making the city administration a personal and political machine for the benefit of those who control it and whose activities are to be used largely as favors...