Just observe the scramble for tickets for the Millennium dances in our five-star hotels. Rivalry was another very strong motive. The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry. The intense rivalry and violence at election time in Sri Lanka is a crying shame on our political leaders. They can control it.
Vanity is another motive of immense potency.
It grows with what it feeds on. What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory of some kind. Love of power is by far the strongest motive in the lives of politicians. Power, like vanity is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.