Top 100 Means To End Quotes
#1. I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.
Muhammad Yunus
#2. Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.
Pearl Zhu
#3. When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
Bertrand Russell
#4. Men do not understand that because they unrestrictedly kill so many animals, they also must be slaughtered like animals in big wars. The reaction must be there. You are killing innocent cows and animals. Nature will take revenge. To kill cows means to end human civilization.
Anonymous
#5. That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.
Mark Goldblatt
#6. Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
Soren Kierkegaard
#7. Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.
Richard Sennett
#8. All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention..
Jac Holzman
#9. Proud meaning that ... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud?
Jaejoong
#10. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#11. Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.
Sherwood Anderson
#12. Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing - a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END
Andrew Murray
#13. You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.
P.D. James
#14. How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end?
Elie Wiesel
#15. Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.
Mike Pence
#16. Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.
Immanuel Kant
#17. Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
Charles Baudelaire
#18. Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus
Adolf Hitler
#19. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours - and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. We do not seek to force our code upon them. They are free to believe what they please.
Ayn Rand
#20. Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.
Hannah Arendt
#21. My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Peter Singer
#22. Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
Immanuel Kant
#23. Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.
Glynis Nunn
#24. But as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
Heidi Julavits
#25. The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator Fulbright)
Bill Clinton
#26. The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Kim Weston
#27. We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.
Edward Snowden
#28. I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was.
Catherine Tate
#29. Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner
#31. For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
Bruce Lipton
#32. To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna
#33. There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
Jo Walton
#34. Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
William Whewell
#35. I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
Jane Fonda
#36. I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.
Chris Buck
#37. Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#39. It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
Adam Weishaupt
#40. For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
Wilhelm Rontgen
#41. This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word ... that is what has upheld the morale of our people, to know that in the end good will prevail.
Desmond Tutu
#42. At no point does anyone in the chain know what to do with money in the real economy. But in an indefinite world, people actually prefer unlimited optionality; money is more valuable than anything you could possibly do with it. Only in a definite future is money a means to an end, no the end itself-
Peter Thiel
#43. We need to pay as much attention to the MEANS, as to the END! This is the biggest principle of SUCCESS..The END is so enticing, that we lose sight of the details altogether..Success lies in the DETAILS!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#44. Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
Bill Crawford
#45. To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.
William Barclay
#46. When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#47. When people say 'marriage' to me ... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady Gaga
#48. Life's but a means unto an end, that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things
God.
Philip James Bailey
#49. Can I not get so much of my own will? Is not the thing feasible? Yes - yes - the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. (Ch 10)
Charlotte Bronte
#50. For the first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia. I don't see her as a means to an end - a potential way to take down the bastard who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful.
Callie Hart
#51. Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good ... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
Joseph Goebbels
#52. This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
Terence McKenna
#53. The money means nothing to me. For that matter, the antique shop means nothing. It's simply a means to an end I want the farm, Stuart. Not for it's monetary value, but for its intrinsic value. It's my home. The only one I've really known, and I'll do anything to keep it." - Alyssa Mccord
Peggy Moreland
#54. Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
Abdullah Ibrahim
#55. It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.
Frankie Boyle
#56. You see, control can never be a means to any practical end ... It can never be a means to anything but more control ... like junk..
William S. Burroughs
#57. The most dangerous truth a Confessor knows is that the rules of society are just consensual hallucinations. Choosing to wake up from the dream means choosing to end your life.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#58. Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.
Eric Drooker
#59. She says the lesson to learn is that the world is round, which means that if I run too fast I might end up chasing the very homeland I am running from.
Sefi Atta
#60. I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH.
Kristin Cashore
#61. Because most who are trying to put an end to injustice only think of the injustices they believe they themselves have suffered. Which means that they are concerned not really with injustice but with themselves. They hide their focus on themselves behind the righteousness of their outward cause.
The Arbinger Institute
#62. Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.
Frederick Lenz
#63. I really didn't mean to hurt him.
But we're all means to an end.
And he was no exception.
Cristiana Di Palma
#64. To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.
Lee Child
#65. God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes
Ravi Zacharias
#66. Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
Charles Handy
#67. When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
Bashar Al-Assad
#68. When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.
Moby
#69. To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
Beth Simone Noveck
#70. Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.
Pope John Paul II
#71. I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
Ayn Rand
#72. Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
Jeannette Walls
#73. Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
Jean Chretien
#74. Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success.
Romina Russell
#75. When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.
Victor Hugo
#76. To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis
#77. Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
#78. He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself.
Ted Chiang
#79. Sentience is a means to the end of continued existence. Sentient beings, by virtue of their being sentient, have an interest in remaining alive; that is, they prefer, want, or desire to remain alive.
Gary L. Francione
#80. I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
Jeff Lemire
#81. Those who won our independence ... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
#82. To some people, it's not the end that justifies the means. It's the process that they're after, ( ... )
C.M. Stunich
#83. Achieving your vision doesn't mean you've reached the end of the line. It simply means that you've come to a new starting place.
Nido R. Qubein
#85. In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Whewell
#86. Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.
Marc Parent
#87. Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healing power of family relationships.
Joseph A. Micucci
#88. Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.
Thomas Troward
#89. Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.
Ram Dass
#90. When a holy was is declared, the end justifies any means to those crusaders.
Colleen Gleason
#91. In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.
Daniel H. Wilson
#92. I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow ... it is the honest state before the apple.
D.H. Lawrence
#93. The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.
Samuel Bowers
#94. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Ayn Rand
#95. What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?
Roger L'Estrange
#96. I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar
#97. When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.
Thomas Troward
#99. Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
Aristotle.
#100. The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day.
Denis Waitley
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