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Motive Quotes

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Cleveland Abbe The atmosphere is much too...
Herbert Baxter Adams Individual ambition is undoubtedly a...
Joseph Addison That he delights in the misery...
Mortimer Adler We acknowledge but one motive...
Stanley Baldwin You will find in politics that...
Lewis J. Bates Cruel and cold is the judgment...
Dirk Benedict It is a good motive, fame...
Henri Bergson The motive power of democracy...
Jean de la Bruyere It's motive alone which gives...
Lord Byron To withdraw myself from myself...
Lord Byron We are all selfish and I...
Alex Campbell I, Alexander B. Campbell, make...
Miguel de Cervantes When the severity of the law...
Kate Chopin Some people are born with a...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge No one does anything from a...
Nathan Deal Just because scientists have the...
Denis Diderot Patriotism is an ephemeral motive...
George Eliot What makes life dreary is the...
George Eliot Cruelty, like every other vice...
Havelock Ellis The husband - by primitive instinct...
Dianne Feinstein For the life of me, I...
Sally Field I really have no ulterior...
Paul Gallico No game in the world is...
Todd Gitlin I first came to think about...
Jurgen Habermas From a moral point of view...
Hermann von Helmholtz What appeared to the earlier...
Claud-Adrian Helvetius Every man without passions has...
Claude Adrien Helvetius By annihilating the desires, you...
Ernest Hemingway For a war to be just...
Eric Hoffer Kindness can become its own...
Eric Hoffer It is futile to judge a...
Herbert Hoover America - a great social and...
Laurence Housman I believe absolutely in love...
William James How to gain, how to keep...
Anna Jameson In morals what begins in fear...
William J. Brennan, Jr. Sex, a great and mysterious...
Lajos Kossuth In my opinion, the form of...
Charles Kuralt There are a lot of people...
Donna Leon My head can get to murder...
Zoe Lofgren I think the motive is to...
Patrick MacGill Few men could explain why they...
Bernard de Mandeville Because impudence is a vice...
Sarojini Naidu We want deeper sincerity of...
Augustus Y. Napier This part of being a man...
Barney Oliver If interstellar travel is as...
George Oppen Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is...
Ayn Rand Do not ever say that the...
Tom Scholz Turning corporations loose and letting...
Walter Scott He is the best sailor who...
Swami Sivananda Desire is poverty. Desire is...
William Howard Taft Socialism proposes no adequate substitute...
Stand Watie My great crime in the world...
William Butler Yeats The light of lights looks...
Mao Zedong The people, and the people...



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