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The cost of leadership is self-interest.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
I think most people act in their self-interest.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.
Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.
The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.