Self-defeating Quotes

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.