Quotes About Means

It is lawful to love all things and to seek them, once they become means to the love of God. There is nothing we cannot ask of Him if we desire it in order that He may be more loved by ourselves or by other men.

Those who still possessed means spent lavishly for the most extravagant diversions, as if they wanted a last fling while their pockets were still lined, and decency and the concern for one's fellows were lost in the frantic scramble to survive.

Thus, what we call "symbols of transcendence" are the symbols that represent man's striving to attain this goal. They provide the means by which the contents of the unconscious can enter the conscious mind, and they also are themselves an active expression of those contents.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.

The Fundamentalist does not think that the ends can be reached by various means, and that his method is better; if he did, the hostility would not be as serious.

The power of your commitment brings forth the means necessary for you to live in your Zone of Genius. If

The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity.

Now, having no more doubts, I dwell at peace in the Buddha way. As a skillful means, I will be a servant To protect and embrace the buddhas' teachings.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

In nearly all cases, resistance must continue to drive dictators out of power. Success is most often determined not by negotiating a settlement but through the wise use of the most appropriate and powerful means of resistance available. It

half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.

But it does mean we should be wary about "using" our relationships with churchless friends as means to the end of getting them to church.

Love and hate are both means of emotional control to which we subject ourselves. Once you were done with me, you'd want to be free of the pain of betrayal. Absolutely free.

never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means

N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something else, but good in itself, for which reason was... imparted to us as a practical... absolutely necessary... faculty.

Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità, sia nella tua persona, sia nella persona di ogni altro, sempre anche come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo.

the question of ownership of the means of production becomes obsolescent. Whoever owned them (if such a phrase has meaning), a man, a group, a nation, or all mankind, they could be utilized only as the Machines directed.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication.