Appeasement Quote by Helmut Schoeck

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely…

— Anonymous

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

— Victor Hugo

“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to…

— George Santayana

Motives come in many forms and change throughout our lives.

— Varsha Sharma

In the motive lies the good or ill.

— Samuel Johnson

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.

— Stephen C. Meyer

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

— Isabel Paterson

Motivation is motive in action.

— Denis Waitley

“Today humanitarianism is in search of an identity, especially after the war in Iraq. In a perfect world, humanitarianism would not exist. People wouldn't…

— Marc Vachon

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

— Mahatma Gandhi