Famous quotes containing the words motive force, motive and/or force:
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)