Quotes About Means

It must also be remembered, that to the auricular deceptions practised by the means of ventriloquism or otherwise, may be traced many of the most successful impostures which credulity has received as supernatural communications.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

If the goal is uprooting millennia of traditional sexual morality, a need exists for the means and the ruthlessness to enforce the uprooting. The process doesn't need to be vulgar or brutish. But it does need to be thorough—and in an advanced media culture, that can be achieved by reshaping public perceptions. And so what we face now is what the Wall Street Journal described as "the new intolerance.

The goal of an end to poverty is so noble that governments have successfully used the end to justify the means. The means have been high taxation of the productive members of society and arrays of bureaucracies that increasingly regulate the lives of us all. 1

did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain. Instinctively, all my clowning was based on this. My means of contriving comedy plot was simple. It was the process of getting people in and out of trouble.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

But the censorship itself admits that it is not an end in itself, that it is not a good in and of itself, that it is therefore based on the principle that "the end sanctifies the means." But an end that needs unholy means is not a holy end.81 Besides, Marx argues, the maxim always works both ways as a justification: if the censorship can plead the goodness of its ends as justification for what it does, then so can the (antigovernmental) press.

Parenthetically, in the West's current war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, it would be good for the leaders to remember this "Islamic tactic of warfare." According to this "religious" doctrine of Islam, what Muslims say does not have to be true— after all, to them, "War is deception." And the end justifies the means.

If one wants anything, one should seek it from God, the Sovereign of the heavens and the earth. The basic rule is to ask God and then work; that is, one should utilize the means (asb?b) that one must use in order to achieve something in this world.

Along with the provision that God gives, He also has provided the means (asb?b) by which one must seek out his provision. One person may be in possession of a meal that is meant for another, who then is invited to the former's home for that very meal. So a person never loses anything by feeding a guest. It is a provision meant for that guest, which was already decreed by God.

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

Elsewhere, Schmemann puts it beautifully: Christ came not to replace "natural" matter with some "supernatural" and sacred matter, but to restore it and to fulfill it as the means of communion with God.

I don't believe in the creativity of the curator. I don't think that the exhibition-maker has brilliant ideas around which the works of artists must fit. Instead, the process always starts with a conversation, in which I ask the artists what their unrealized projects are, and then the task is to find the means to realize them.

Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Means of destruction hitherto unknown, against which there can be no adequate military defense, and in the employment of which no single nation can in fact have a monopoly.

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

But we can only be evolved in the same context in which we were lost—that is, in relationship. We are born into relationship. Our personalities are formed by relationship. And, we are healed in relationship. Relationship holds both the evidence of our injuries and the means of our salvation. It's the way we become who we are.

La destrucción de las fuerzas armadas del enemigo era un medio para conseguir un fin,

von Moltke's definition of victory: "the highest goal attainable with available means.