Quotes About Ends

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

leave love to fly and it's soar always ends with you

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

THINGS HAVE ENDS AND BEGINNINGS" Cloud mountains rise over mountain range. Silence and quietness,                             sky bright as water, sky bright as lake water. Grace is the instinct for knowing when to stop. And where.

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

Surely you must understand that the means are no less important than the ends. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

The apparent conflict between the law and police practices may not be so important as we tend to assume. The two may, at times, be at odds, but this is of little concern so long as the interests they serve are essentially the same. The police may violate the law, as long as they do so in the pursuit of ends that people with power generally endorse, and from which such people profit.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism offers the great deception that thanks to its machinations everyone will be richer in the future, thus justifying gross inequality and humiliation today.

There is widespread support for nudges that are taken to have legitimate ends and to be consistent with the interests and the values of most choosers.

It is said that the end justifies the means, but that overlooks the crucial detail that only just means will culminate in a just end.

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.

Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow." "I'm thinking a T-shirt.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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

God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them.

The basis for regarding certain ends as objectively valuable to an organism, as the kinds of things that it should seek, Rand reasons, rests in the struggle for life.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.