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Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

John Raleigh Mott

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

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

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

Joseph Lancaster

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.