Intention

Intention

Intention is an agent's specific purpose in performing an action or series of actions, the end or goal that is aimed at. Outcomes that are unanticipated or unforeseen are known as unintended consequences.

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Famous quotes containing the word intention:

    Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
    —R.G. (Robin George)

    O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)