Quotes About Motive

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

As is a rock in the hand of one with evil intentions. It is not the rock that is the problem, but the heart of man.

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.

One thing hits me," Hanne said at last. "Each of these deaths in a sense is circumscribed by Maria." "What do you mean?" "The day Iselin died, Maria travelled to

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

People will sell you out for profit, that's just how people are.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Ya sabes lo que es un «motivo» en el sentido que recibe la palabra en este contexto: es la razón que tienes o al menos crees tener para hacer algo

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

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.

Butter for the cat. I have no reason to be nice to you. Yes you do. I am the cat.

In that moment I realized I did know who to feel the most sorry for. The person who'd killed Levi. I'd find them. And when I did? The one shot, one kill motto of the US Army Snipers wouldn't apply.

the people-pleaser struggles to do it with the right motive. Pleasing and glorifying God by serving others takes a backseat to serving others to promote and glorify self.

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

If you want to find a culprit, first you find those who might gain a benefit from committed act.

Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence.

if you wish to find the guilty party, first discover whose interests the crime serves!

It is for this reason that

Revenge. I swear, is there a more pointless, destructive, unsatisfying motive in all the world?

Could the motive be nothing more than simple self-preservation? When you lose the instinct yourself, it's hard to remember how powerful it is for everyone else. He felt himself starting to smile.

There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons.