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Motive Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have…
- There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for…
- These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second…
- The root of the matter½ the thing I mean½ is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence,…
- Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
More Motive Quotes
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson
- We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. — Jean de la Bruyere
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron