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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. — Robert E. Sherwood

In a society of free men the preservation of life and health are ends, not means. They do not enter into any process of accounting means. — Ludwig Von Mises

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively. — Ken Keyes Jr.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things
God. — Philip James Bailey

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — Immanuel Kant

Money is both a means and a means to an end. — Emme

Let the end and the means be joined into one. — Swami Vivekananda

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. — Bill Vaughan

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical. — Saul Alinsky

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves. — Sydney J. Harris

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. — Christopher Hitchens

The ends and means are a seamless web. — Gloria Steinem

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

And knowledge management is a means, not an end. — Bill Gates

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends. — Simone De Beauvoir

The means are inconsequential, only the ens matter — Rita Stradling

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue. — Saul Alinsky

One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good. — Marghanita Laski

It isn't always true that a critical end justifies desperate means. — Richelle E. Goodrich

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right. — Fulton J. Sheen

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. — Idries Shah

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

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. — William Shakespeare

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ... — Harold Laski

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. — Wallace D. Wattles

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. — Nancy Gibbs

The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem. — Albert Einstein

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. — Emily Giffin

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends. — Gelsey Kirkland

The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources. — Walter Russell

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. — Immanuel Kant

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live. — Blaise Pascal

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there. — Robert Browning

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence. — Louisa May Alcott

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldous Huxley

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends. — Joseph O'Connor

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources. — Robert D. Kaplan

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

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. — Aristotle.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble. — Alan Perlis

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means. — Tony Judt