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Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

Purpose is not an add-on, it’s not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss