Expense Of Others Quotes

#1. Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

Elizabeth Banks

#2. Rhys told himself that everything came with a price. He'd made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and some days he could convince himself that life was like war: bitter, desperate choices were often made in the name of survival, and some inevitably survived at the expense of others.

Julie Anne Long

#3. One cannot be happy at the expense of others' unhappiness,especially if they are those you love dearly !

Kavita Kane

#4. The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Alexander Herzen

#6. He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

Gail Sheehy

#8. being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Baltasar Gracian

#10. When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.

Jonathan Goldstein

#11. Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Ayn Rand

#12. Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

Sharan Burrow

#13. Don't you sometimes feel a power in you? An extreme state of good health. An arrogant healthiness. That's it. You are feeling so good you begin thinking you're a little superior to most people. An optimism about yourself that you generate at the expense of others. Don't you sometimes feel this?

Don DeLillo

#14. The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

Jack Kelly

#15. Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Frances Wright

#16. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

Polybius

#17. Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#18. Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Alveda King

#19. What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.

William Ury

#20. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one - we are left with no companion save God. In

James Salter

#21. if you provide everything your child needs whenever he throws a tantrum, at the expense of others, he will turn out to be self-centered and overbearing.

Tyson Caro

#22. The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

Amy Dacyczyn

#23. Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Henry Ward Beecher

#24. I don't blame Germans," Emil said. "I don't even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.

Steve Anderson

#25. There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Leonard Read

#26. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.

Richard Llewellyn

#27. Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

Myles Munroe

#28. Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

Jeff Bezos

#29. Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Horace Mann

#30. This was replaced by a widespread and aggressive individualism whereby everyone looks out for himself, at the expense of others and without worrying about the good of society.

Zygmunt Bauman

#31. All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

William Graham Sumner

#32. Sneaks, spies, defenders, heroes, masterminds, tenacious bastards - it doesn't matter what you call us. We're the ones who will do whatever it takes to stop those who believe they're entitled to wealth and power at the expense of others."
"The family business," Yelena said, smiling.

Maria V. Snyder

#33. We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

Billy Graham

#34. Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.

Nikki Rowe

#35. Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#36. In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Jorge Luis Borges

#37. History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

Saul Bellow

#38. Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.

Jet Black

#39. Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

#40. It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

Jim George

#41. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Dan Brown

#42. [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

Herbert Stein

#43. Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

David Stafford

#44. In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

Richard J. Foster

#45. Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: "I'll do as I please at everybody else's expense." An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man - his own and those of others.

Ayn Rand

#46. No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today's world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#47. Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living. It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life. It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.

Mike Michalowicz

#48. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Thomas Merton

#49. Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Bill Crawford

#50. The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

Simon Sinek

#51. I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

Geraldine Ferraro

#52. Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#53. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Jonathan Kieran

#54. For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all the others. Only love can attain and preserve the good of all. Any claim to build the security of all on force is a manifest imposture.

Thomas Merton

#55. You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#56. The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

Lori Copeland

#57. We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries ... I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#58. Don't entertain others at the expense of your reputation.

Bohdi Sanders

#59. It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Anton Chekhov

#60. It was clear that the delight being taken ... was not the vicarious pleasure of watching people enjoying themselves and identifying with them, but in seeing people being humiliated while others enjoyed themselves at their expense.

Iain M. Banks

#61. The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

George W. Romney

#62. Don't try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

Millen Livis

#63. Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others." "No," Isana agreed. "Some of them are incompetent schemers.

Jim Butcher

#64. We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Jeremy Bentham