It's the millenium, motives are incidental.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.