moral purpose QUOTES

1 " The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

2 " As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human interest. "

― Archibald MacLeish

3 " Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. "

― Thomas Henry Huxley

4 " 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 information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz’s moral purpose (building an integrated self). "

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5 " Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit. "