Self serving Quotes · Page 3

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 United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

[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

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Chet Huntley

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

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

In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

— Leo Kadanoff

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

The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making…

— Mark Ruffalo

You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain…

— Colin Farrell

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

— Nathaniel Branden

Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as…

— L. Neil Smith

What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that,…

— Geoff Rickly

I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind…

— Howard Schultz

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

— Dorothy Norman

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of…

— Mark Hatfield

“The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.”

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Adam Grant

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

— Todd Tiahrt

Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to…

— Eckhart Tolle

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When people gossip and tear down another, it only exposes the lack of Gods love in them, and the satanic, self serving…

— Anonymous

“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