America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee 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
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
“There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to… — Jack Dempsey Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
