I'm a person who really likes to understand motives - the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to… — George Washington 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
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you seek His help, be sure your life is clean, your motives are worthy, and you're willing to do what He… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is… — Richard Whately 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
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity… — Theodore Millon Copy Share Image