#purpose

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#experience #government #guard #liberty #most

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#purpose #talent #wants

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. ↗

— John Cage

#her #highest #manner #nature #operation

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#across #act #child #crime #custody

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#life #pay #purpose #rent #service

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#redeeming #socially #weapons

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ↗

— Anatole France

#afterwards #art #awakening #curiosity #minds