Quotes About Ends

No morality can be established a priori. Insofar as there are only abstract ends, there is no real morality. A moral imperative only emerges in contact with a situation.

the idea that the right way of valuing goods and social practices depends on the purposes and ends those practices serve.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Seduction like attraction, is spoken about in a more positive manner in our generation. Forgetting the fact that these attributes involve bending the will of another person in order to make our ends meet our means.

Ends run true to origin.

There is no stopping the man who can think from the end. Nothing can stop him. He creates the means and grows his way out of limitation into ever greater and greater mansions of the Lord. It does not matter what he has been or what he is. All that matters is 'what does he want'? He knows that the world is a manifestation of the mental activity which goes on within himself, so he strives to determine and control the ends from which he thinks.

Automation severs ends from means. It makes getting what we want easier, but it distances us from the work of knowing.

These aren't mistakes," says the Prophet. "This isn't Oh, I must have heard God wrong. This is opportunism. This is twisting His will to corrupt ends. Because people are corrupt. Adults.

lives were spent in pursuit of shadowy ends that remained ever just round the corner.

The dog, to gain some private ends,Went mad, and bit the man.

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

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

a genius of means, barren of ends

All it's done is create a separate culture—which, incidentally, never stops whining on about its superiority. That always ends well." "Then it is not unusual for such a culture to be subject to attack from ideological rivals.

Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”