“I think the motives of the legislature in passing an Act of Parliament are to be taken to be proper motives.”

Bradley and another v. Clark (1793), 5 T. R. 201.

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 328
Context: The two deepest thinkers on sex in the twentieth century are Sigmund Freud and D. H. Lawrence. Their reputations as radical liberators were so universally acknowledged that brooding images of Freud and Lawrence in poster form adorned the walls of students in the Sixties. Yet the voluminous and complex works of both men were swept away by the current women's movement, when it burst out in the late Sixties and consolidated its ideology in the Seventies. Whatever their motives, the first feminist theorists acted as vandals and Bolsheviks. The damage they did to culture has in the long run damaged the cause of feminism.

Source: Wizard's First Rule

King v. Waddington (1800), 1 East, 158.

Introduction to the 2002 edition, p. 13
The Heart of Change, (2002)

In response https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a3aGosA987cZ4aRAB/online-discussion-is-better-than-pre-publication-peer-review#TkXmTc5Sxnt9GhyZS to someone suggesting that status is not a motivator for Dai, September 2017 <br class="br">Context: I think status is in fact a significant motivation even for me, and even the more &quot;pure&quot; motivations like intellectual curiosity can in some sense be traced back to status. It seems unlikely that [updateless decision theory] would have been developed without the existence of forums like extropians, everything-list, and LW, for reasons of both motivation and feedback/collaboration.

Letter to Edward Dowse (19 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801&ndash;1805)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 420.