28 Quotes About Self-serving

His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.

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.

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

The question: ‘At what point is my ego finally satisfied?’ The answer: ‘At no point’. And that is the point.

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good.

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.

The service of self ends in the service of self. And that is a very small place to find myself living in.

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.