Ends Quotes

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

In the long run of history, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

One of the great philosophical debates of the centuries has been over the whole question of ends and means. In a real sense, the end is pre-existent in the means; the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process. In the long run of history, immoral means cannot bring about moral ends.

I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Each of us lives in two realms, the "within" and the "without." The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means.

The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.

A good thing never ends.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

You live you die and death not ends it.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Ends and beginnings there are no such things. There are only middles.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

When diplomacy ends, war begins.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.