We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan 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
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my… — Jose Canseco Copy Share Image
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in… — Epictetus 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
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
