End Goals Quotes

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

A great politician has to bother himself less with means than with goals.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

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.

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

I would love to maybe shoot a movie or something, but end goals: I just want to play a superhero. I think that would be so much fun. I'm putting that energy into the universe for sure.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.