It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by…

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

— Dallin H. Oaks

“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)”

— Len Webster

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

— Francesco Guicciardini

The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.

— Jim McDonald

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

— Margot Asquith

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

— Gautama Buddha

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

— Margaret Halsey

I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and…

— Keith Ellison

Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to…

— Baron d'Holbach

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

— Malcolm Fraser

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…

— Roland Merullo