INTENTION QUOTES III

quotations about intentions

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

SENECA

Moral Essays

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A good intention feeds no one.

BOBBY DARNELL

Time for Dervin: Living Large in Geiggityville


The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

American Statesman: Thomas Hart Benton

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