Quotes About Ends

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

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.

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

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.

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

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching are but a more glorious hypocritical sinning if the ends are not right.

There are times, Your Honor, when reality bears features of such an impellingly moral complexion that it is impossible to follow the hewn path of expediency. There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

It is the ultimate unfinished symphony, with the loose ends of life and loves to somehow be bound together.

In the ideology of the free market, freedom is conceived as the absence of interference from others. There are no common ends to which our desires are directed. In the absence of such ends, all that remains is the sheer arbitrary power of one will against another.