I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't… — David Maister Copy Share Image
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The Softness of a person's Nature Doesn't mean Weakness, because Nothing is Softer than Water but its Force can Break the Strongest… — Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad Copy Share Image
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
