Bob Greene Quotes

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say, "It happened." Do the best you can with what you think happened, but a lot of other people are going to see it happening differently.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It takes the educational sphere seriously, and it tells people there's no alternative; that market freedom is really freedom in general; that a rabid kind of individualism is all that matters; that as Ayn Rand used to say, "self interest is the ultimate virtue" - and people believe this stuff. Because they have no other discourse.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to listen to it at all. I'm not trying to convince people of things, other than the fact that I'm trying to make as vivid as I can my own feelings and experiences.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

He is not to them what he is to me.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.