Purpose Quotes - page 2

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. (Howard Zinn)
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. View quote
Colin Powell
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. View quote
Paul Valéry
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. View quote
George H. W. Bush
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. View quote
Mortimer Adler
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller)
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. View quote
H. G. Wells
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. View quote
Mary Shelley
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. View quote
William Shakespeare
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. (Aldous Huxley)
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. View quote
Richard Hamming