Daniel N. Robinson Quotes
Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
Daniel N. Robinson
Quotes to Explore
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle
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Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.
George Clooney
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
Aristotle
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
Plato
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All things in moderation, including moderation.
Socrates
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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
Blaise Pascal
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I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of the beheading of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, or the many other hostages that were beheaded in Iraq. We as a society need to see the type of enemy we are fighting. People have been so sheltered in this country that they have not paid attention to what has been going on for the last twenty-some years. And today, even after the attack of September 11, people still cannot fathom that this type of barbarity could happen here.
Brigitte Gabriel
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I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.
Fleur East
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
Seneca the Younger
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Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.
Henry Louis Gates
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
Daniel N. Robinson
