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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… — 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… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson
- They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to… — Walter Russell
- One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story
- Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Henry A. Kissinger
- Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small… — 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… — Frank Herbert
- Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes… — Isadora Duncan