All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.” — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you what the light is, but I can tell you what it is not.… What is the motive of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred,… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money…” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it)… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
“All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
