Sentence examples for only as means from inspiring English sources

The Marquis de Sade reverses Immanuel Kant in advocating that people be treated not as ends but only as means.

Narcos and Our Brand Is Crisis imagine Latin Americans only as means to US ends, not as human beings in their own right.

The time gained with this increased efficiency can be used for other activities, deliberately chosen as worthwhile, rather than activities that serve only as means to achieve less worthwhile goals, so-called time wasters.

This rendering is more disturbing, suggesting that only states of happiness have value whereas individuals have derivative value only as means to happiness.

An illustrative version posits, as its core right, the right against being used only as means for producing good consequences without one's consent.

Arnauld's line of thought seems to be as follows: Human beings are attracted to limited goods only as means to the unlimited good of happiness.

Ms. Dickinson is justly credited with being sporadically witty and tart-tongued; here, for some reason, she comes across only as mean.

Mean data were available only as monthly means.

Lee, like Leigh Fermor, believed in walking not only as a means of motion but also as a means of knowing – and this unforgettable book is proof of the truth of that belief.

So cooking is important only as a means to an end.

The state exists only as a means of self-preservation for its citizens.