Quotes: Motives

There is no music that can’t be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

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

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.