Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
