Best Ends Justify The Means Poems

Americans have overcome many great trials,
But harbor too some persistent denials.
Stubbornly clutching long-held positions,
Over time have become national traditions.
Pride in the sanctity of individualism,
Elevates in stature, creating a schism.
Unresolved core beliefs, rationalization,
Test the thinking of this citizen nation.

Answer Me This:
Why do so many use the...

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*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The Ends Justify the Means” but may.
Many have said “Rules Were Made To Be Broken”
Not only written rules but some which...

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© 2012 (Jim Sularz)

We are conceived by short sightedness,
nurtured with unbridled power.

We believe in self-interest,
and the dollar almighty.

As masters of deception and treachery,
we father hatred and misery.

We revel in our own injustice,
wallow in our lies and debauchery.

We believe the ends justify the means,
and we will...

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The world needs leaders, that it can respect,
lying to people builds distrust,
granted people can and do make up false beliefs,
conspiracy theories, 

The Russian people turned against the Czar
because they believed, that Rasputin
was telling the Czarette and the Czar 
how to run the country

Poverty and suffering...

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They're never supposed to end, they're 
supposed to last forever
Its supposed to be locked down but it's as 
light as a feather
Someone could've been your best friend 
forever a few years back
But now you turn and look at them and be 
like "who is that?"
Friendships...

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This word ends can make one think,
how many ends are there?

I needed the ends of my hair cut.
What happened when they cut too much off?
I needed to wear a hat for weeks.

Lets drive to the ends of this road.
It is a dark and quiet place.
We...

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Oh no and I will not forget tonight! If you loved me you'd treat me well oh but what the hell, don’t you know pay backs are hell! You will be sorry when I work my spell on you, yes you will be sorry for...

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Oh no and I will not forget tonight!
If you loved me you'd treat me well
Oh but what the hell, don’t you know pay backs are hell!
You will be sorry when I work my spell on you,
Yes you will be sorry for the rest of your...

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         the ends justify the means
     it is not in Machiavelli's The Prince
       but it appears in Ovideo's Herod...

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The light through 
My Grandmother’s
Bedroom window
Called out to me

‘Calls out to me’

Leading me to places 
Where I had to go
Revisiting me now 
In my twilight years

‘In my twilight years’

Reminding me again 
Of those places I’ve been
And my reasons for going 
As the mileposts shone

‘And the...

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        The ends justify the means
          Machiavelli oxymoron
           or Ovid...

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ENDS

Beginnings always will have ends
With no desire to make amends
And clear messages that it sends
Whichever way the viewer leans
As the ends do justify the means

Ends can be almost hypothetical
Such an odd view is not heretical
A Moebius strip is mathematical
As the end is just where it...

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        The ends justify the means...

         Machiavelli, an oxymoron

           or Ovid, a paraphrase (?)...

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