Emma Goldman Quotes

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

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

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Let no act be done without purpose.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.