Cass McCombs Quotes

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

The man who is always watching for his own gain is a traitor at heart.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

Bobby Roode is the kind of guy who will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

To plunder, to lie, to show your ass, are the three essentials for climbing high.

He [Henry Clay] is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraces the image of God—nothing too mean or low for him to condescend to.

[Theodore Roosevelt] has sold himself to the devil and will live up to the bargain.

Promise everything to anyone, unless clear obligation prevents it. Only live up to those promises which are of advantage to you.

There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.