Top 100 Quotes About Means To An End
#1. Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.
Richard Sennett
#2. All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention..
Jac Holzman
#3. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#4. How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end?
Elie Wiesel
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Kim Weston
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
Bill Crawford
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Life's but a means unto an end, that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things
God.
Philip James Bailey
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
Abdullah Ibrahim
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I really didn't mean to hurt him.
But we're all means to an end.
And he was no exception.
Cristiana Di Palma
#34. Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
Charles Handy
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself.
Ted Chiang
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Whewell
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry.
Dennis Prager
#54. More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.
Joseph Laycock
#55. What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to identify information for deeper study, scanning is becoming an end in itself - our preferred way of gathering and making sense of information of all sorts.
Nicholas Carr
#56. Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.
A.J. Darkholme
#57. I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#58. Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
learn how to use time constructively.
It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
Kenneth Wapnick
#59. Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
Amish Tripathi
#60. Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,
A.W. Tozer
#62. Please tell me it's not like eighty degrees in Malibu."
"It's not. It's raining, which means the natives are convinced the end is near and are engaged in ritual auto pileups in an attempt to appease the angry gods.
D.B. Reynolds
#63. To separate meditation from prayer, reading and contemplation is to falsify our picture of the monastic way of prayer. In proportion as meditation takes on a more contemplative character, we see that it is not only a means to an end, but also has something of the nature of an end.
Thomas Merton
#64. Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
Immanuel Kant
#66. Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
Adolf Hitler
#67. An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
Peter Kreeft
#68. When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Eckhart Tolle
#69. They were an unworthy means to a worthy end.
C.D. Reiss
#70. Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#71. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.
Gary Hopkins
#72. Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.
Paul David Tripp
#73. Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
Eckhart Tolle
#74. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.
Nina Mason
#75. To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.
Marty Rubin
#76. On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein
#77. When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.
Walter J. Phillips
#78. Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something
related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot
separate technique from expression. There is only expression.
Kimon Nicolaides
#79. Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#80. Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".
Murad S. Shah
#81. Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes
#82. Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
Jonathan Turley
#83. The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
Samuel Beckett
#84. I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.
Mario Vazquez
#85. Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our civilization shall find some means of making an end to war, war will make an end to our civilization.
John Hessin Clarke
#86. How do we professionally manage content? We don't. We shouldn't manage content in the same way that we shouldn't manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.
Gerry McGovern
#87. The goal of an end to poverty is so noble that governments have successfully used the end to justify the means. The means have been high taxation of the productive members of society and arrays of bureaucracies that increasingly regulate the lives of us all. 1
Charles Murray
#88. The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market - it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself.
Erich Fromm
#89. If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness ...
Muhammad Asad
#90. I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#91. All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#92. Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
Gloria Steinem
#93. Animals ... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
Immanuel Kant
#94. Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#95. We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
Satish Kumar
#96. Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.
Adetokunbo O. Adeoye
#97. But she knew this, - that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.
Anthony Trollope
#98. Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.
Emily Thorne
#99. The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years
I began to support myself at sixteen
I had to regard it as the end itself.
George Gissing
#100. Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.
John F. Carlson
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