"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the……" — Renata Adler

More Always Self Quotes

This quote is filed under Always Self Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley
• The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch
• Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining… — Martha Van Rensselaer
• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined… — Andrea Dworkin
• Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people.… — Marvin J. Ashton
• Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. — Ernest Mandel
• Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are… — Ludwig von Mises
• Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Unsolicited advice is always self-serving. — Amy Dickinson
• Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it. — James A. Baldwin
• At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit… — Ilona Andrews
• They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,”… — Beatrice Sparks

See all 15 Always Self Quotes »