Quotes About Motive

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.

Whatever of motive there may have been in the lawyer's query, 'Who is my neighbour?' aside from that of self-justification and a desire to retreat in the best form possible from an embarrassing situation, we may conceive to lie in the wish to find a limitation in the application of the law, beyond which he would not be bound to go. If he had to love his neighbors as he loved himself, he wanted to have as few neighbors as possible." -ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ

Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

In the above-captioned case, the motive or original intent of the UNSUB was burglary of cash and/or other valuables. With the unexpected appearance of one of the residents of the house, the crime devolved into a homicide. The motivation was both sexual opportunism and the need to eliminate the only witness.

On October 28, 2008, when Judge Paulo Micheli found Rudy Guede guilty of the crime of murder, following an abbreviated "fast track" trial, the killer of talented British college student Meredith Kercher was removed from society and placed safely behind bars, where he has resided ever since. That same day, the judge also ordered a case devoid of merit or motive to proceed to full trial against the victim's American roommate and her Italian boyfriend.

Mignini's proposed motive—that the murder was an occult rite—may seem far-fetched to American readers, but it was no surprise to those who knew Mignini. That had also been his theory of motive in the Monster of Florence case.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.

It's so dreadfully easy...killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter…That it's only you that matters! It's dangerous...that.

A murderer is seldom content with one crime.

People don't do things without a reason.

the more we learn, the less and less motive we find for suicide? But for murder, we begin to have a surprising collection of motives!

jealousy is a pretty good motive for murder – and a pretty common one, too.

A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.

It's so dreadfully easy—killing people. And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter…that it's only you that matters!

A person who had killed three times wouldn't hesitate to kill again…. They were in danger,

Which crime—the first or the second?" "There is only one—what you call the first and second murder are only the two halves of the same crime. The second half is simple—the motive—

Wife murder is perfectly possible—almost natural, let's say!

When you have two crimes precisely similar in design and execution, you find the same brain behind them both." -- Hercule Poirot

I have been wondering—whether it might perhaps be all much simpler than we suppose. Murders so often are quite simple—with an obvious rather sordid motive….

My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are 'mentioned.' There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them. You can take your choice of the two motives." -- Hercule Poirot

You cannot have a murder without motive." -- Hercule Poirot

Say what you like, it's not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all to have a motive for killing B – unless, that is, B is absolutely madly unpleasant and in that case nobody will mind whether he's been killed or not, and doesn't care in the least who's done it.