7 quotes found
“The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or need...”
“The Lord weighs the motive of every heart.”
“...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...”
“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.”
“People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day.”
“Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.”
