Quotes About Motive

The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

No intelligent beings did things without motives.

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?"[9

There is no single, all-determinative divine will that coercively steers all things, and hence there is here no supposition that evil agents and events have a secret divine motive behind them. Hence too, one need not agonize over what ultimately good, transcendent divine purpose might be served by any particular evil event.

emerges from logic, not desire.

Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.

The wrong thing, for the right reasons.

What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the human body in favor of some random notion you've hatched or heard and branded as true. By wisdom I mean the collective improvements of millions of years of evolution. The mind objects strongly to shit, but the body has no idea what we're on about.

There are reasons for everything, even if we don't know them, Stevie said. Motive. Okay, Nate said. My motive is that I prefer dragons. To what? To the absence of dragons.

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.

Man's motive power is his moral code.

What was his aim in life? Greatness—in other people's eyes. Fame, admiration, envy—all that which comes from others. Others dictated his convictions, which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that others believed he held them. Others were his motive power and his prime concern. He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great. He didn

Did you ask me to name man's motive power? Man's motive power is his moral code. Ask yourself where their code is leading you and what it offers you as your final goal. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The

Corporate growers, if their only motive is profit, will find ways to follow the letter of organic regulations while violating their spirit.

The most common motives for homicide are moralistic: retaliation after an insult, escalation of a domestic quarrel, punishing an unfaithful or deserting romantic partner, and other acts of jealousy, revenge, and self-defense.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.