“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.” MenChoicesThreePleasureAnimalCommonObjectsOppositesPainfulNobleMotivePleasantGood ManThree ThingsAvoidance Author:Aristotle
“Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsEndsChoicesAwfulMotiveSelflessHeartedSympatheticGood Hearted Author:Bob Odenkirk
“You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician's policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.” TryingPersonsSoulCountryChoicesAsksCan DoCrazyPolicyPoliticianMotiveSensiblePeersLaw Enforcement Author:Paul Begala