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- People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
More Self Serving Quotes
- You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott
- A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
- Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner
- Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,… — Unknown Author
- What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler
- Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or… — James C. Collins
- 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
- The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara
- 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
- 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 NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for… — Anne Rice
- But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced… — Banksy