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Motive Quotes by Simone Weil
- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
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
- 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
- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein
- 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
- 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