The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.