Motives Quotes

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

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

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.