Become Quote by David Grann

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately…

— Desmond Tutu

“Now, boys, you won't see this operation performed very often and there's a reason for that... You see it has absolutely no medical value.…

— William S. Burroughs

I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to…

— Colum McCann

Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Even the shortest love stories remind me of how much I love you.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

— Luanne Rice

“What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive purpose (acquiring…

— David Brooks

The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect…

— Ayn Rand

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself…

— Ayn Rand

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of…

— Ayn Rand

“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.”

— Stan Goff

“[L]ike it or not, the right timing is an inescapable part of human endeavor and thus of politics. . . . But some activists…

— Clarke D. Forsythe

“What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)”

— Aristotle

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster