Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
Uri Geller

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.
Louis Farrakhan

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
John Strachan

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Guillaume Apollinaire

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mohandas Gandhi

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
Matthew Henry

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
Elijah Wood

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer Beals