Motives Quotes

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.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

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

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

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.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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.