There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the "fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex. Ernest Belfort Bax
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. James Madison
Those who are actuated by the desire of fame and glory are amazingly gratified by approbation and praise, even though it comes from their inferiors. Pliny the Younger
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires. Bertrand Russell
I could see even then that the British officials who spoke of him with a mixture of amusement and disapproval also genuinely liked and admired him, after a fashion. Nobody ever suggested that he was corrupt, or ambitious in any vulgar way, or that anything he did was actuated by fear or malice. George Orwell
If men were actuated by self-interest, which they are not – except in the case of a few saints – the whole human race would cooperate. Bertrand Russell