Quotes About Motive

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless the intent is criminal].

Nobody's been saved. And more often than not, the killer's got what he wanted. He's inherited the money. He's got rid of his wife. It's very unlikely he's going to kill anyone else.

The baby had been the end of Grace's acting career and if the newspaper stories were true, Damian had proved to be a far from ideal partner. Drugs, parties, showgirls … it easily added up to a motive for murder.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

pour le bon motif!

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

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.

If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.

If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.

Outside, a dog sprawls among the empty tables, its body rocking with the evening heat. Someone has given it a hamburger which first it guards, then, eventually, eats. It's some kind of winter dog, a malamute perhaps, a dog of marvellous subtle greys and whites. Also of transparent intelligence, and less transparent motive. The beauty of an animal like this appears to fix it in our expectations. But while its beauty says one thing, its heart may say another.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

That to make something, one must feel something, Jahir said. That there is no creation without a motive force. And that such forces should be positive, or the results become twisted and strange. Which would suggest that love creates the universe, or should.

Motivation is desire or inspiration. A motive is a reason. What's your reason?

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.