Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Evidence of defendants’ lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
My job in ‘Motive’ is to be the rebellious teenager – what boy wouldn’t want to be that?
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.
We’ve done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there’s an idea that black men don’t want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
You don’t have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
I never made this film with the motive of making money. I wanted to make a different film, which would strike a chord with the audience. I’m extremely happy that ‘Mithunam’ succeeded in what it wanted to achieve.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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