#motives

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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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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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#meaner #motives #never #opponent #own

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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

#daughter #does #even #his #i

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#another #another man #charge #deal #good

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

— Thomas Mann

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