Top 1200 Ends And Means Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.