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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive  (Motive Quotes) The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor power to the greatest possible extent  (Motive Quotes) For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive  (Motive Quotes) He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles  (Motive Quotes) It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind  (Motive Quotes) One cannot erect, on the basis of a motive that exists only for a very few, an obligation that shall apply to everyone  (Motive Quotes) The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or an accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness  (Motive Quotes) The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed  (Motive Quotes) No motive is pure. No one is good or bad - but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away  (Motive Quotes) America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - reaching in purpose  (Motive Quotes) Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose  (Motive Quotes) The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed the shadow of shadows looks on the deed alone  (Motive Quotes) No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined  (Motive Quotes) For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive  (Motive Quotes) What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her? What would he do. Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears  (Motive Quotes) Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body  (Motive Quotes) Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it  (Motive Quotes) If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface  (Motive Quotes) The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them  (Motive Quotes) What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more  (Motive Quotes) The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory  (Motive Quotes) Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil  (Motive Quotes) Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To love is to share and serve  (Motive Quotes) To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person  (Motive Quotes) What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other  (Motive Quotes) In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil  (Motive Quotes) Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right  (Motive Quotes) Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men  (Motive Quotes) You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain  (Motive Quotes) My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That’s my motive  (Motive Quotes)
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