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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. -- Walt Disney
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. -- Edith Stein
The darkroom is just the means to an end. -- Kim Weston
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. -- Peter Greenaway
I don't think it's by any means an end to my career. -- Mario Vazquez
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. -- Immanuel Kant
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end. -- Daniel Barber
Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. -- Timothy Noah
I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school. -- Rachel Nichols
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. -- Felix Frankfurter
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. -- Lady Gaga
I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale. -- Matthew Fox
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. -- Henry David Thoreau
Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light. -- Robert Adams
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end. -- Eckhart Tolle
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Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself. -- Jonathan Turley
Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life. -- Glynis Nunn
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend. -- Jean Chretien
I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things. -- Leighton Meester
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. -- David Crystal
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end. -- Henry Ford
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. -- Immanuel Kant
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. -- Christopher Dawson
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences -- William Whewell
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. -- Robert Redford
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. -- Edith Stein
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. -- Tony Robbins
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life. -- Eckhart Tolle
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. -- Martin Van Creveld
When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet. -- Moby
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green. -- Ian Anderson
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. -- Eckhart Tolle
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself -- Eckhart Tolle
As the means, so the end. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The end doesn't justify the means. -- Ovid
The end must justify the means. -- Matthew Prior
The improved means to the unimproved end. -- Henry David Thoreau
Yoga is a means and an end. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The end is inherent in the means. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power is not a means; it is an end. -- George Orwell
Is God an end or is He a means? -- Paris Reidhead
The best content is the means, not the end. -- Ben Richards
And knowledge management is a means, not an end. -- Bill Gates
Let the end and the means be joined into one. -- Swami Vivekananda
Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything. -- Swami Vivekananda
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. -- Brande Roderick
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species. -- Michael Crichton
Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If the end does not justify the means - what can? -- Edward Abbey
Money is both a means and a means to an end. -- Emme
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. -- Tom Stoppard
The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. -- Auliq Ice
Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean. -- Harry Hooton
Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself. -- Peter Gleick
Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end. -- Terence McKenna
Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. -- Tom Stoppard
I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive. -- Peace Pilgrim
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end. -- Adolf Hitler
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. -- Modest Mussorgsky
Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end. -- Robert Fripp
In attaining our ideals,our means should be as pure as the end! -- Rajendra Prasad
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. -- Modest Mussorgsky
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man. -- Immanuel Kant
The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means. -- Nick Harkaway
Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten. -- Henry Hazlitt
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it. -- Saul Alinsky
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. -- Idries Shah
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart. -- Jack Kornfield
If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. -- Penn Jillette
In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means. -- Stephen Covey
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other. -- Lord Acton
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end. -- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself. -- Charles Handy
We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal. -- Francis Chan
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. -- St. Jerome
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing. -- Sandra Bullock
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God. -- Philip James Bailey
... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form. -- Sue Monk Kidd
a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them. -- Amelia Barr
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. -- John Denham
All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family. -- Russell M. Nelson
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. -- Leon Trotsky
Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. -- John Wesley
Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end. -- Terry Pratchett
When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end. -- Eckhart Tolle
Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking. -- Nhat Hanh
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself. -- Gloria Steinem
The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
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Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well. -- Charlotte Moss
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end. -- William Whewell
Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end. -- Alex Gaskarth
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. -- Immanuel Kant
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. -- Lord Acton
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. -- Aristotle
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing -- Jose Bergamin
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. -- Thomas Troward
Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. -- Jack Kerouac
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. -- Bjarke Ingels
War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. -- Mary Horlock
The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. -- Sebastian Fitzek
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. -- James Whistler

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