We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and… — Jeremy Bentham 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
Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Any time someone gives you drugs, the purpose is to subdue. Always. Whether it is from a dealer, a friend, your mother/brother/sister/son,… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to… — Eknath Easwaran 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
Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go… — Wilfrid Noyce Copy Share Image
Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
