A Quote by Samuel Rogers
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force. In other words, you are permitted to use force only in response to some else's use of force. If they do not use force you may not use force yourself. There is a symmetry here: force for force, but no force if no force was used.
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
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