Self Serving Quotes

“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”
― Leon Festinger

“His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.”
― Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.”
― Christina Engela

“The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.”
― Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

“A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Emergency food has become very useful indeed, and to a very large assortment of people and institutions. The United States Department of Agriculture uses it to reduce the accumulation of embarrassing agricultural surpluses. Business uses it to dispose of nonstandard or unwanted product, to protect employee morale and avoid dump fees, and, of course, to accrue tax savings. Celebrities use it for exposure. Universities and hospitals, as well as caterers and restaurants, use it to absorb leftovers. Private schools use it to teach ethics, and public schools use it to instill a sense of civic responsibility. Churches use it to express their concern for the least of their brethren, and synagogues use it to be faithful to the tradition of including the poor at the table. Courts use it to avoid incarcerating people arrested for Driving While Intoxicated and a host of other offense. Environmentalists use it to reduce the solid waste stream. Penal institutions use it to create constructive outlets for the energies of their inmates, and youth-serving agencies of all sorts use it to provide service opportunities for young people. Both profit-making and nonprofit organizations use it to absorb unneeded kitchen and office equipment. A wide array of groups, organizations, and institutions benefits from the halo effect of 'feeding the hungry,' and this list does not even include the many functions for ordinary individuals--companionship, exercise, meaning, and purpose. . .If we didn't have hunger, we'd have to invent it.”
― Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

“If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The question: ‘At what point is my ego finally satisfied?’ The answer: ‘At no point’. And that is the point.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don't like people being taken advantage of. It really bothers me at my core.”
― Bob Palmer

“A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“The service of self ends in the service of self. And that is a very small place to find myself living in.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“King is not, he who is not king of his time
Rich is not, he who lives on borrowed time
Poor is he who of himself is a zealot”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“As a nation, we must remember that the principles upon which we stand are always superior to the politics that we can’t stand.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He had wanted to be a soldier and was well suited to be one. But a soldier is a pawn in the hands of the ruler and the rulers of his land were idle and self-serving persons, he had started to convince himself now”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Pretty normal for a high-achiever to be shut out by superiors for various self-serving reasons. Keep achieving anyways.”
― Richie Norton

“Rod Rosenstein spent the days that followed grappling with the matter of most urgency to the United States of America: how to restore the reputation of Rod Rosenstein.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“All governments are terrorists... just at differing levels.”
― R.Patient

“Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each other. In short, without trust, people focus on self-protection and become unwilling to make themselves vulnerable. (...) People who lack trust are limited in what they can accomplish together.”
― William Von Hippel, The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy

“In order to go up you must be willing to go down in some aspects of life such as pride, ego and self-serving.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“If I show up at my own fire, the ‘me’ who needs to be rescued and the ‘me’ who’s doing the rescuing are both likely to get burnt. And the oddity of it all is that if I choose to be my own first-responder, I can get burnt without a fire.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ryan was a man who never did anything from an altruistic place in his heart. Everything he did was always to serve a specific purpose.”
― Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali, From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt

“The self-serving ways of one that imperil others’ course would serve the unintended in unexpected ways, and that's the Goring Syndrome”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Fuqua”
― The F

“Truth is a preexistent reality that transcends our authorship, is untouched by the dictates of our interpretations, is invincible in the face of the most ingeniously crafted lies, and exceeds the duration of our existence. And if we dared to hold all of our cherished beliefs against such a penetrating standard, how often would we find ourselves left with nothing but the standard?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough