People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.
I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Motives are causes experienced from within.
Nobody does anything for one reason.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
