Ulterior

Famous quotes containing the word ulterior:

“Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong’s sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements. It is a radical, a primitive impulse—elementary.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)