Behinds Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and…

— Sarah Fielding

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and…

— Lord Chesterfield

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

— Jane Smiley

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

— H. P. Lovecraft

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have…

— Mark Twain

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public…

— Thomas Paine

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

— Stanley Baldwin

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

— Ayn Rand