It is one of the saving qualities of ability that it has the power of growth, and great responsibilities often educate an able man out of selfish aims.

In Orthodox Christianity mankind has chosen to use his freewill for selfish aims (to have a separate being from God) and therefore caused the fall of man.

Separatists, chauvinists and nationalists of all kinds understand this well and are trying to use the growth of peoples' national self-consciousness for their selfish aims.

Of the theoretical faults, Bentham thought that natural rights were a construction adopted to pursue the selfish aims of the drafters, of which no logical basis could be found.

He never once had to hang down His head at the discovery of His own selfish aims and by-ends.

It is for this very reason that Eristic Dialectic must admittedly take victory, and not objective truth, for its selfish aim and purpose.

Yes, here at the United Nations headquarters, which is dedicated to preserving the peace of the world, short-sighted men are at work trying to further their own selfish aims.

"The whole scheme is being jeopardized by several organizations with political strings, local grievances or selfish aims."

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

'The agency is committed to protecting the public purse from fraudsters who are determined to steal from the taxpayer for their own selfish aims,' the minister said.