Means To End Quotes

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

The ends justifies the means.

We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

The end must justify the means.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

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.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

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

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

The people who I serve believe that the means by which I came to office corrupt me.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Violence is not and has never been a legitimate means to a political end.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.