A Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Hazlitt
American - Philosopher
November 28, 1894 - July 9, 1993

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Joseph Goebbels

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Ayn Rand

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Ayn Rand

We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

Julian Huxley

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Edward Abbey

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Gloria Steinem

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Peter Kreeft

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

Robert Fripp

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Aldous Huxley

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.