#purpose

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ↗

— William Seward

#foolishness #opinions #purpose #change

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#agreements #fulfill #go #go home #good

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#attached #car #engine #free #never

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. ↗

— Camilo Jose Cela

#down #full #head #ideas #must

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bodies #calls #cherish #determine #dream

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#being #being used #beings #cannot #god

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american public #approach #big #bring #buys

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. ↗

— George Armstrong Custer

#narrative #possible #purpose #truthful