Violent Ends Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

#2. Violent delights tend to have violent ends.

Richard Ramirez

#3. Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.

Sharon Kay Penman

#4. I think of you like a sister," he said. "Like a brilliant, violent, occasionally terrifying sister that I would follow to the ends of earth, in part because I respected her so much and in part because I feared what she would do to me of I refused. "
She nodded. "I would do awful things.

Kiersten White

#5. We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#6. As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Albert Bandura

#8. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#9. Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. In the dark of the night, we're nothing but shadows. My feelings and thoughts are as tangled as unraveled yarn, loose ends and knots and bursts of violent color.

Delilah S. Dawson

#11. When it feels scary to jump, that's exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can't do.

J. C. Chandor

#12. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++

Jeff Knupp

#13. Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

Walter Wink