individual motivations Quotes

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

Every need got an ego to feed.

Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.