Their Purposes Quotes

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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. — Carl von Clausewitz
We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson
They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their… — Walter Russell
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep… — Joseph Story
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke… — Thomas a Kempis
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. — Henry A. Kissinger
Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of… — Barbara Ann Kipfer
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until… — Frank Herbert
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify… — M H Abrams
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone… — Duke Ellington
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out,… — Woodrow Wilson
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."… — Umberto Eco
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is… — Karl Marx
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass… — Vladimir Bukovsky
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. — Carl von Clausewitz

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