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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ↗

— George Eliot

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I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter. ↗

— Victor Garber

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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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