With The Exception Of The Instinct Of Self-preservation, The Propensity For Emulation Is Probably The Strongest And Most Alert And Persistent Of The Economic Motives Proper

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper

Thorstein Veblen

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

Archibald Alexander

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw

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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

P D James

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It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

Jamie Kennedy

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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

James M Barrie

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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Albert Ellis

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Oscar Wilde

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

George Eliot

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Actions are visible, though motives are secret

Samuel Johnson

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

Mason Cooley

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