Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to feel pathos for the villains in our show. I feel quite moved in several of our episodes; I… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great,… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
If Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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