Self serving Quotes · Page 2

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

— Michel Chossudovsky

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

— Aldrich Ames

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

— Adam Grant

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now…

— Chet Huntley

Compassion is best without mixed motives. Compassion that is self serving or even just lazy, like some handouts, is a mixed blessing.

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“the outsized egos and self-serving nature of the “control set” executives contributed to the deaths of their own companies.”

— Eighty Twenty Publishing

I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.

— Todd Tiahrt

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social…

— Frans de Waal

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

— Michael Crichton

Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide…

— Larisa Alexandrovna

The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the…

— Harlan Ellison

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other…

— Susan Sarandon

“It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to…

— Christina Engela

By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art…

— Abe Ajay

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case…

— Donella Meadows

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can…

— Steven Moffat

We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal…

— Nathaniel Branden

“What is the motive behind your services? If it is self-centered, self-serving, and lacking consideration for others, then earning people’s trust, rapport,…

— Susan C. Young

Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I…

— Woody Allen

[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking,…

— Chuck Robb

Keep in mind the public has been brainwashed, and nearly 80% of what is known about me is fantasy and self serving…

— John Wayne Gacy

Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to…

— Philip Zimbardo

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,…

— Sufjan Stevens

We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.

— Frans de Waal

Conversations about piracy don't have to be condemning. They don't have to be preachy, self serving or reactionary.

— Ti West

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books…

— Randy Pausch

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You…

— Richard Hell

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I…

— Neil Bush

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our…

— Dorothy Norman

“If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn't a good deed, it's a self-serving one. Why? Not…

— Donna Lynn Hope

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self…

— Srikumar Rao

Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,…

— Leo Kadanoff

“It was a sad truth that all the masses of men in their causes would be led by ambitious men, by power-hungry,…

— Oakley Hall

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it…

— Sean Parker

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential…

— Sue Monk Kidd

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking…

— Neil Young

Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will -…

— Walter J Chantry

Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving…

— James Cook