Desire Quote by Ayn Rand

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal;…

— Ayn Rand

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

— Milton Friedman

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking…

— Carrie Fisher

In the motive lies the good or ill.

— Samuel Johnson

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

— Democritus

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience…

— Thomas Merton

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of…

— George Eliot

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than…

— Christian Nestell Bovee