“Every person is a child of God and a brother of man. Therefore personality is the supreme value, and should be regarded as an end and not merely as a means to an end.”

— Kirby Page

Individualism and Socialism (1933)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Every person is a child of God and a brother of man. Therefore personality is the supreme value, and should be regarded…" by Kirby Page?

Kirby Page 248

American clergyman 1890–1957

Related 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.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

“I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.”

Ford Madox Ford book The Good Soldier

Part Two, Ch. I (p. 122)
The Good Soldier (1915)

“Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The end result of this personal and public impoverishment is a hollow man.”

Charles A. Reich book The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VI : The Lost Self, p. 150

“Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?”

Lauren Myracle (1969) American children's writer

Source: Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks

“Every person wants to be valued.
Every person wants to be respected.
Every person wants to be appreciated.
Every person wants to be understood.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: John C. Maxwell official FB page https://www.facebook.com/JohnCMaxwell/posts/464718381691671

“There are no ends that must be accomplished by any given personality, no ends that must be gained by a personality for the entity.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 95, Page 62
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 3

“Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.”

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

“This is why socialism is evil. It employs evil means, coercion or taking the property of one person, to accomplish good ends, helping one's fellow man.”

Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic

Helping one's fellow man in need, by reaching into one's own pockets, is a laudable and praiseworthy goal. Doing the same through coercion and reaching into another's pockets has no redeeming features and is worthy of condemnation.
Evil Concealed by Money, 19 November 2008
2000s

“Democracy sometimes looks like an end in itself, but in fact it is merely a means to an end.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966-1972)

“Every person is a child of God and a brother of man. Therefore personality is the supreme value, and should be regarded as an end and not merely as a means to an end.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Kirby Page 248

Related quotes

Related topics