Motivation-Dissuasion

Right is its own defence. (Bertolt Brecht)

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. (Shaw)

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. (Veblen)

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. (Locke)

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all of the motives which produced them. (La Rochefoucauld)

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Walter Bagehot)