“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.” KnowsMenLittlesEnoughActionDesirePowerfulRichInstitutionsPropertyInstinctAverageMotiveConsumerismPersistentPrivate LifePrivate PropertyOverconsumptionPlunderAverage ManHoardingSatiety Book:Outspoken essays Source: Outspoken essays
“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.” LittlesMotivationConsequenceConcernMotiveLiablePreoccupation Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.” KnowsFirstsLittlesFacesCertainNextTermLosesChallengesAmountCongressCampaignsAdministrationMotiveSuspectsVotersIdentification Author:Roy Blunt
“A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.” HeartLittlesMadeSoulCharacterBodyActionGraceMovementPureMotiveManifestMechanismAccordRight Action Book:The Christian Science Journal Source: The Christian Science Journal