Home / Library / Quotes / Ends and Motives Notable Quote "The purpose of a man's act is his end; the desire to achieve this end is the man's motive for instituting the action." — Rothbard, Murray event 1962 From Man, Economy, and State Context: From the praxeological foundations laid out in Man, Economy, and State (1962). Rothbard distinguishes the end an actor seeks from the motive that drives him toward it, a basic conceptual building block for analyzing purposeful human action. Topics trending_up Praxeology menu_book Economic Theory school Philosophy