Quotes About Means

For these local families of distinction were convinced that not only one's family but one's wealth was the be-all and end-all of every happy union meant to include social security. And in consequence, while considering Clyde as one who was unquestionably eligible socially, still, because it had been whispered about that his means were very slender, they were not inclined to look upon him as one who might aspire to marriage with any of their daughters.

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.

To people schooled in the humanistic tradition, the manipulation of human behavior by some sort of conscious technique seems incorrigibly wicked, in spite of the obvious fact that we all go around trying to manipulate one another's behavior all the time, by whatever means come to hand.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Ah!" Her eyes lit up as she grasped it, sliding the nasty little blade out of the sheath and holding it up to the light. "This should come in handy!" she murmured with great relish. It felt wonderful to have some means of self-defense in her hand again, at last. As Nick straightened up again, she noticed him staring at her. Did she seem too savage? "What is it?" she asked. "Your father would have been extremely proud of you.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Instead of forgetting your dreams and living within your means, try pursuing the means to live your dreams.

Ultimately, said Lucas, adopting the tones of the radical hippie many supposed him to be, "we learned one rule that came out of the '60s: Acquire the means of production

Life is a process, not a goal; a means but not an end; a constant movement rather than an established pattern.

Grace becomes not only the means by which God once justified us, it is also the means by which we are continually encouraged and enabled to serve him with undiminished delight.

Faith can (and must!) as such be called obedience, however, because the gospel does not come to man as a communication or offer that leaves him free, but asks of him the decision and the act to enter into that way of salvation ordained of God and to abandon every other means of salvation than that which is proclaimed to him in the gospel.

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving your child too much. Whereas, if you're in twenties, you might just get by.

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.