131 quotes found
“My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.”
“Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.”
“Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.”
“I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.”
“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.”
“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
“The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.”
“All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
“The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes...”
“The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.”
“Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.”
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”
“Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.”
“Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.”
“A car for every purse and purpose.”
“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”
