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The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering. — Thomas Woods

That is the honest nature of friendship. That is when it becomes sincere, and not self-serving. — R.A. Salvatore

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. — Heinlein Robert A.

All explanations tend to be self-serving. — Marty Rubin

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving. — Amy Dickinson

We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals. — Frans De Waal

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. — Dada Bhagwan

When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others. — Ken Jennings

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit. — John Fante

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. — Steven Spielberg

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

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

Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool. — Charlie Munger

the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism. At — Nathaniel Philbrick

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. — Ginny Brown-Waite

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

Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants. — Shannon L. Alder

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together. — Shannon L. Alder

Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality. — Dada Bhagwan

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. — Mark Hatfield

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause. — Joe Abercrombie

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

awareness of a problem does not mean much - particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful. — Park Dietz

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. — Criss Jami

A punishment is not self-explanatory. It serves no purpose until the person serving it knows the real reason for being punished. — Amit Pandey

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has. — Graham Nash

But isn't that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina of self-serving omissions. — Jason Mott

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict. — Michel Chossudovsky

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! — Evinda Lepins

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly

So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim? — Irvin D. Yalom

The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages. — Robert Wright

The beautiful thing is that you can change your self-image, just like you can change everything else in your life if it is not serving to enhance it. — Robin S. Sharma

Nothing clears out self-righteousness better than serving someone who is critical of you. — Paul E. Miller

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton — Veronica Roth

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed — Sunday Adelaja

Self-serving mentality hinders from fulfilling kingdom mandate — Sunday Adelaja

You must understand the immense power of self-serving delusion." I — Jeremy Robert Johnson

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

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

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. — Mark Strand

Jnana yoga is the yoga of kindness and compassion - serving the self that is everywhere. — Amit Ray

assertions about men: sleazy, chancing, self-serving, porn-obsessed slackers. — Jojo Moyes

Change comes from dedicated, ordinary people, in the trenches, serving a cause greater than self. — Linda Bender

Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks. — Ken Jennings

Gaia wasn't ruthless and self-serving like Caine; she was evil, like Drake. A psychopath. A mad and terrible beast. — Michael Grant

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting. — Sandra Bernhard

The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own. — Janet Malcolm