| I gave up last year when I realised that they were a bunch of dull egoists. |
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| We do not need to assume anything as strong as the claim that we are all dedicated, grasping, egoists to see this. |
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| This gets at what ethical egoists intend, while skirting the issue of constraints on moral theories. |
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| The first one suggests that Pascalian reasoners are manipulative egoists whom God might take exception to, and they won't be rewarded after all. |
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| Being egoists is what makes us opposite from the Creator, who vitalizes all nature. |
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| Love and art, last bulwarks in a culture of egoists, dropouts, maniacs and half-wits. |
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| After all, the Creator created us as absolute egoists, possessing a will to enjoy. |
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| No Salieri, Vasari seems to have been a perfect shepherd of creative egoists, sweetly unenvious and never a threat. |
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| So they can be altruists helping each other in this society, not being egoists. |
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| Still, within a group, there are always a few hardened egoists. |
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| I feel very honoured to have been asked to get involved in the campaign and very happy to see that people in the West wanted to fight this battle. It just goes to show that Babylon's not just full of egoists! |
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| In the second situation, although altruists cannot change egoists-which unfortunately remains a Utopian undertaking-they can establish a system in which egoists benefit by behaving as if they were altruists. |
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| We are born and we grow as absolute egoists, caring only for ourselves. |
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| They are all lazy, incapable, egoists, proud and eternal beggars. |
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| In the first situation, the group dynamic is sidetracked by the short-term benefits sought by egoists, as was the case during the recent financial crisis, for instance. |
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