A Quote by Albert Camus

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
French - Philosopher
November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

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Shannon Purser

My obvious happiness and open, sharing nature made me vulnerable to people with ulterior motives.

Sonja Morgan

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Paul Valery

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

Richard Preston

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Charles R. Swindoll

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Mother Teresa

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

Franz Kafka

Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be analysed and partly understood according to the rules of a simpler discipline, but they also present another level of complexity: viruses are living chemicals, and primates are animals who love and hate and think.

Alison Jolly

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

Michael K. Powell

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.