Own Ends Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work… — William Hazlitt
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose… — Carl Jung
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends... — Hector Hugh Munro
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert
They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?… — J M Coetzee
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as… — Leo Tolstoy
The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its… — Philip Wills
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to… — Stephen Batchelor
A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere,… — Oswald Chambers
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of… — Abdallah II
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power… — Edward Snowden
It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially… — Christopher Dawson
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking… — Aldous Huxley
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our… — Charles Kellogg
Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead… — Keith Henson
Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends, — Pat Sajak
At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound… — Primo Levi

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