“[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.” WayRealGovernmentActionTogetherPurposeBrainFiveMilitaryDangerBabyInternetHighestEmpathyRaisesActivismSensesCellsCorporateOnlineChemicalsEmailConfusingFive Senses Author:Gloria Steinem
“Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don't feel like I need a piece of paper that says I own her and she owns me. I think signing a piece of paper doesn't mean anything in the eyes of God or in the eyes of people. The thing is, if you are together and you love each other and are good to each other, make babies and all that, for all intents and purposes you are married.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsFeelsMeanEyeTogetherPurposePiecesExampleBabyPaperMarriedLove Each OtherSigning Author:Johnny Depp
“I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.” IfsKnowsCountryWantedPurposeBlackCrimeBabyRateSoleCrime Rates Author:William Bennett
“The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” PeopleIfsKnowsEndsGovernmentPurposeResponsibilityBabyStructureForgivingAppetiteForgive MeInsatiableCanalsSense Of Responsibility Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981
“Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.” PurposeBaby Author:Billy Connolly
“At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.” FirstsTwoSchoolPurposeThreeLeftAnimalTeacherBabyAppealsClassroomPigsImpressedRabbitsZoosGood FoodSnacksGuineaPerfectly GoodHamstersTrue PurposeRodentsGuinea Pigs Book:Men of the Otherworld Source: Men of the Otherworld
“It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the purpose of these eyes, this impossible face, the softness and the curves of this body, the strength of this mind; what was the point, if none of the men who desired her were to give her any babies, and all it ever brought her was grief? What was the purpose of a woman monster?” IfsMenGivingMindMadeDoneBodyEyeFacesPurposeGriefFireViolenceImpossibleBabyCreatingAngryMedicineMonstersCurvesSoftnessThese Eyes Book:Fire Source: Fire