Means Quotes

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.

The end is inherent in the means.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

The ends justifies the means.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

Let the end and the means be joined into one.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

So I have tried to make it 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 even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary