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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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No one does anything from a single motive.
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65 -
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
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How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
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I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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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.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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Now there is no murder without a motive.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) -
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
Bhagavadgita
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