Quotes About Means

I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand.

It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet disdains to use other argument than truth, has less influence over men's minds than he who, grasping and selfish, refuses not to adopt any means, nor awaken any passion, nor diffuse any falsehood, for the advancement of his cause.

I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death.

What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other. That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

They didn't seem concerned by the fact that for every "loser" who had bought more house than he could afford, there were twenty folks who had lived within their means but were now suffering the fallout from Wall Street's bad bets.

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported … Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Providence - for whom everything, even an obstacle, is a means.

My thoughts were still careening, still trying to make sense of Roger's strange and cryptic e-mail. If you get this, that means they finally succeeded, he'd written. So he was expecting to be killed. I've taken precautions to protect you and Gabe, he'd said. The means to hold them off. What could that be? Would Lauren know? And what was that bizarre postscript—Please say good-bye to the librarian—supposed to mean? A code, surely, but what?

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

Since, however, God has ordained Baptism as a necessary means of salva tion, 26 perfect contrition, in order to obtain forgiveness of sins, must include the desire of the Sacrament.

The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

Lottare per l'emancipazione integrale, aspettando e preparando il giorno in cui essa sarà possibile, strappare al governo ed ai capitalisti tutti quei miglioramenti politici ed economici che possono migliorare per noi le condizioni della lotta ed aumentare il numero di coloro che lottano coscientemente. E perciò strapparli con mezzi che non implichino il riconoscimento degli ordini attuali e preparino le vie dell'avvenire.

Certamente la rivoluzione va difesa e sviluppata con logica inesorabile; ma non si deve e non si può difenderla con mezzi che contraddicono ai suoi fini. [...] Se per vincere si dovesse elevare la forca nelle piazze, io preferirei perdere.

Certainement, la révolution a à se défendre et à se développer avec une logique inexorable, mais on ne doit, et on ne peut la défendre avec des moyens qui sont en contradiction avec ses fins.

The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom—with unconscious flattery—she called 'her friends'. An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people.

The first great fact which emerges from our civilization is that today everything has become "means." There is no longer an "end"; we do not know whither we are going. We have forgotten our collective ends, and we possess great means: we set huge machines in motion in order to arrive nowhere. JACQUE SELLUL

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.