Quotes About Ends

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

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.

These violent delights will have violent ends!" My son didn't get the Westworld reference.

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

It's not God who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in Him and who claim to pursue their ends in His holy name!

My love for you is a journey...it starts at forever and ends at never!

is perhaps true to say, not that civil liberty is the child of religious liberty, but that liberty, whether civil or religious, was the work often reluctantly, sometimes unconsciously, undertaken by communities of men who had an end higher than political, who refused to submit religion to politic arguments, who fought for ends never entirely utilitarian.

The demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Life stops when you start dreaming; hope ends when you stop believing; love ends when you stop caring, so keep living and be willing.

Life ends when you stop dreaming, hope ends when you stop believing, love ends when you stop caring, friendship ends when you stop sharing... so share this with whom ever you consider a friend.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

Awesome ends with me but Ugly starts with u...

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

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

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.

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.

Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.