Ends And Means Quotes

• The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

  Leon Trotsky

  Freedom, Philosophy, Mean

  "When It Comes to Personal Transformation, Could the Ends Be the Means?" by Russell Bishop, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

  Georges Bernanos

  Mean, Tyrants, Deception

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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• We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Mean, Way

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• To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Men, World

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Science, Ends

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• The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.

  John Goodlad

  Educational, Mean, Issues

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• 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.

  John Carroll

  Believe, Mean, Goal

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.121, Taylor & Francis

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• In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Mean, Doe

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• Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

  Martin Buber

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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• Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, Views, Different

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• The ends and means are a seamless web.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Evil, Ends

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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