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Ethical motive   /ˈɛθəkəl mˈoʊtɪv/   Listen
Ethical motive

noun
1.
Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.  Synonyms: ethics, morality, morals.






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"Ethical motive" Quotes from Famous Books



... imperfect insight. And all that I could not help. In the case of this book I was unable to supplement these deficiences by the exercise of my inventive faculty. It was never very strong; and on this occasion its use would have seemed exceptionally dishonest. It is from that ethical motive and not from timidity that I elected to keep strictly within the limits of unadorned sincerity and to try to enlist the sympathies of my readers without assuming lofty omniscience or descending to the ...
— Notes on My Books • Joseph Conrad



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