Pastoral Resources

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.