Motives

Famous quotes containing the word motives:

“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)

“... for the motives of acts
Are rarely the same
As their name, as their name....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“We have done scant justice to the reasonableness of cannibalism. There are in fact so many and such excellent motives possible to it that mankind has never been able to fit all of them into one universal scheme, and has accordingly contrived various diverse and contradictory systems the better to display its virtues.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)