Quotes About Means

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage in their means but through the changed pattern in the distribution of deference and power.

Britannia was prepared to derate the whole of her battle fleet and start afresh with new superbattleships but also that she had the wealth and means to do so while her rivals were still recovering from the shock of Dreadnought's appearance.

The mask was no longer a means by which to get you back, but only a hidden camera through which to watch your betrayal of me. I had made the mask for the purpose of recovering myself. But it had willfully escaped from me and, taking great pleasure in its evasion, had become defiant;

Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.

after the abolition of capitalism, there will be 'constant relative over-production' of equipment, raw materials and foodstuffs. 'Over-production of this kind', he says, 'is equivalent to control by the society over the objective means of its own reproduction.

Criticism has already settled all accounts with this subject. It no longer figures as an end in itself, but only as a means. Its essential pathos is indignation, its essential work is denunciation.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.