Ulterior Motive

Famous quotes containing the words ulterior motive, ulterior and/or motive:

    “Morality—the idiosyncrasy of decadents, with the ulterior motive of revenging themselves on life—successfully.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “And I envy the intransigence of my own
    Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
    See the victim’s face become their own
    Or find his motive sabotage their motives.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)