selfishness [Theme] Page 3

Of course the world is changing. And the UN must match this natural transformation. Russia, on the basis of a broad consensus, is ready for this work on the further development of the UN with all partners. But we consider attempts to undermine the authority and legitimacy of the UN as extremely dangerous. This can lead to the collapse of the entire architecture of international relations. Then we really won't have any rules, except for the right of the strong. It will be a world in which, instead of collective work, selfishness will dominate, a world in which there will be more and more dictatorship and less and less equality, less real democracy and freedom, a world in which, instead of truly independent states, the number of de facto protectorates ruled from outside will multiply. territories. After all, what is state sovereignty? This is primarily a question of freedom. Free choice of your own destiny for each person. For the people, for the state.

In relationships, we are selfish. We fear. We are afraid to lose. We are afraid to receive less. We are afraid to share our love with someone else. The love that we receive from another. Which we have appropriated for ourselves. Like what belongs to us.

Education of young people usually boils down to rewarding out of innate selfishness.

You have never sincerely loved anyone! You only care about yourself, but you are not able to love even yourself!

Under certain special circumstances, a gene is best able to achieve its own selfish goals by encouraging a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.

Too big an egoist loses vigilance even with regard to what directly concerns his personal interests.

Living the way you want is not selfishness.
Selfishness is when others have to think and live the way you want.

The difference between a coward and a brave man is very simple. It's all about love. A coward loves only himself.

- Who said that bullshit? Someone wise? Maybe this is some exaggeration?

Everyone in this world is like that - blind, impulsive, selfish, not aware of what they want or what they should do. All just pathetic actors, stupid puppets!

Egoism is the principle of life, because a society that has put it in its service, which has given it civilized and subordinate forms, becomes a society of prosperity, and a society that has despised the truth of life becomes a society of degradation and decline.

Morality requires truth, harmony with nature, the fullness of life, the body of which includes selfishness, evil, suffering, pain as a necessary element.

You can rant about altruism as much as you like, without selfishness, life goes to its end.

The lever of historical movements has always been the egoism of individuals, groups, and the masses.