The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case,… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things. — Phil Karn Copy Share Image
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again,… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women… — Ayelet Waldman 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
Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji Copy Share Image
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will -… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
