Self-Defeating Quotes
- There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms… — James Buchan
- All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard
- Isolation is a self-defeating dream. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. — Michael Landon
- Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating. — P. Chidambaram
- When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt
- You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating. — Bill Keller
- Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of… — Sharon Salzberg
- There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It… — George Wald
- Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better… — Evgeny Morozov
- Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. — Camille Paglia
- Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba -… — Stephen Kinzer
- It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. — Renata Adler
- I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and… — Mika Brzezinski
- Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work. — Susan Rice