Quotes About Means

Trust me, do not try to cheapen things; great affairs are badly done with small means.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men forever unequal in one respect, yet equal in others; they must, in the end, come to be equal in all. Now, I am aware of only two means of establishing equality in the world of politics: rights have to be granted to every citizen or to none.

our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Prayer is thus a means ordained to receive what God has planned to bestow.[22]

It's not that the means corrupt the ends. It's that the ends never work, and that's why they need brutal means.

He who has no means of subsistence, has no duty to acknowledge or respect other people's property, considering that the principles of the social convenant have been violated to his prejudice.

The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.

independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means

It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

LS/MFT–Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.

dubious means might subvert virtuous ends.

Tiberius and Drusus decided to prevent a future Alpine revolt by a simple but brutal means: mass deportations

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Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.