Quotes About Means

Freedom isn't morally neutral; the emancipation if offers is a means, not an end in itself.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

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

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase "with the addition of other means" because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

Se la strategia è sbagliata, la situazione non migliora aumentando i mezzi e le truppe.

Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism offers the great deception that thanks to its machinations everyone will be richer in the future, thus justifying gross inequality and humiliation today.

It is said that the end justifies the means, but that overlooks the crucial detail that only just means will culminate in a just end.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

He knows his father started him on the path of, let's say circumventing the law. That he has a predisposition for violence. He learned how to channel it, as you did. He had a goal – to get out, to have means and power. He accomplished that. Then he found you. He understands where he came from, and I imagine it's part of his pride that he became the kind of man a woman like you would love.

In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Right, " said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.