1 But that is not the chief motive for my decision.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 2 No doubt he has a motive, and probably a bad one.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER III 3 He can't be showing off his power with no motive.
4 Secondly, my conscience is perfectly easy; I make the offer with no ulterior motive.
5 You are quite at liberty to imagine though that I am making up to you with a motive, particularly as I told you I want to see your sister about something.
6 not so drunk, and will not believe the testimony of two notorious infidels, agitators, and atheists, who accuse me from motives of personal revenge which they are foolish enough to admit.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 7 It must be noted that when Katerina Ivanovna exalted anyone's connections and fortune, it was without any ulterior motive, quite disinterestedly, for the mere pleasure of adding to the consequence of the person praised.
8 But at the very moment, he was struck by the strangeness of his own frankness, and the eagerness with which he had made this explanation, though he had kept up all the preceding conversation with gloomy repulsion, obviously with a motive, from necessity.
9 To the decisive question as to what motive impelled him to the murder and the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 10 The latter fact was very significant in Raskolnikov's eyes: he saw that Porfiry Petrovitch had not been embarrassed just before either, but that he, Raskolnikov, had perhaps fallen into a trap; that there must be something, some motive here unknown to him; that, perhaps, everything was in readiness and in another moment would break upon him.
11 In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a lecturer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain.