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• Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt
• The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Leo Tolstoy
• The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods;… — Unknown Author
• Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert… — Stephen Batchelor
• A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may… — 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… — Abdallah II
• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the… — Edward Snowden

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