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“But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.”

Source: Outspoken essays

“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.”

“I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.”

Feels Desire Ought Motive Jealous Suspicious Without Love

Book:The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.”

Should Firsts Feelings Desire Understanding Clear Greater Offers Perception Valuable Rhythm Faster Motive Prose Verses New Experiences Evaluation Organised

Author:Yvor Winters

“When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.”

Want Desire Social Ability Effort Position Pursuit Reputation Luxury Impulse Motive Dread Influential Love Of Money Wants And Desires Pursuit Of Money

Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

“I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.”

Feels Writing Trying Ideas Hands Desire Hate Turns Strong Novel Written One Thing Pure I Hate Silly Guilty Motive Being Silly Strong Desire

Author:Kelly Link

“I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.”

Knows Want Writing Looks Desire Fame Motive Look Up Dictionary

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.”

Writing Seems Desire Strong Clever Remembered Motive Etc After Death Humbug

Author:George Orwell

“Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.”

Has Beens Two Country Able Desire Democratic Separation Motive Resolve Comprehension Elevation Aristocratic

Book:Journal of a Residence in America

Source: Journal of a Residence in America

“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.”

Mind Humans Able Desire Simple Effort Clear Figures Demand Gains Roots Manage Motive Sole Penetrate

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.”

Firsts Kids Desire Steps Wise Awareness Environmental Appreciation Selfish Motive First Steps Stewardship Unselfish Selfish Desire

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.”

Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition

“The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.”

Men Feelings Action Desire Powerful Influence Fame Constant Motive Dread Reproach Posthumous

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay