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Quotes About Means

The question is: Which means best advances the regulator's goal, subject to the constraints (whether normative or material) that the regulator must recognize? My
~ Lawrence Lessig
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
~ le guin ursula k vii
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.
~ Lemony Snicket
To hear the phrase 'our only hope' always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.
~ Lemony Snicket
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
~ lenin vladimir iii
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means As are within my reach. You pierce my soul.
~ Jane Austen
endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts.
~ Jane Austen
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry.
~ John Tyler
As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth and poverty will evolve in tandem.
~ Joe Lonsdale
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
~ Amish Tripathi
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
~ John Strachan
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
~ Bertrand Russell
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
~ Thomas Hooker
Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.
~ Antoine-Henri Jomini
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
~ Bob Ehrlich
Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.
~ James Larkin
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
~ Georges Bernanos
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock
The thing that's stood out since I've joined United is the desire to win every single game. It means everything to win at this club. I'm just glad to be a part of it.
~ Phil Jones
The resort to force is a two-edged weapon which has a persistent habit of recoiling on the user and which in the last analysis seldom achieves anything that could not be obtained by reason and peaceful means.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
it was largely by military means that Lloyd George sought to proceed: nasty means at that. The British too had their 'squads'. Each side used the other's terminology: 'murder gangs'.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Each of us is tempted to make relationships the end rather than the means
~ Timothy S. Lane
It is necessarily so, since every traditional art obeys a particular spiritual economy that limits its themes and means of expression, so that an abandonment of that economy almost immediately releases new and apparently unlimited artistic possibilities.
~ Titus Burckhardt