Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or… — Paul Ekman 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
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar.… — Joan Juliet Buck 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
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him,… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“terms of those who loved her. She paid back their love with—well, with what? Malice? Not proven. Hate? Not proven. With the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are? — Confucius Copy Share Image
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
