Quotes About Means

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

I think of digital as a means to an end: How do I service and get more loyal customers, how do I achieve operational excellence, and how do I change my culture?

For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.

A dog without influence or private means, if he is to make his way in the world, must have either good looks or amiability.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

It is well known how hard it is to provide a benign order within human means. For the problem, once again, is in the human heart. Until it fully engages with the rule of God, the good that we feel must be cannot come. It will at a certain point be defeated by the very means implemented to produce it.

External, social arrangements may be useful to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means.

We are bringing forth the sons and daughters of God to live their unique lives in this world to his glory. We must do all we can to suit the means we employ to that end.

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the means of our greatest adversity

Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has written: "The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The strangest of all the doctrines of the cult of competition, in which admittedly there must be losers as well as winners, is that the result of competition is inevitably good for everybody, that altruistic ends may be met by a system without altruistic motives or altruistic means.

Communism and free-market capitalism both are modern versions of oligarchy. In their propaganda, both justify violent means by good ends, which always are put beyond reach by the violence of the means. The trick is to define the end vaguely-the greatest good of the greatest number or the benefit of the many- and keep it at a distance.

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.

Inevitably. But women, as you may have observed, have no principles. My family don't feel my pangs of conscience. The end being to bring you and Rachel together again, my wife and daughters pass over the means employed to gain it, as composedly as if they were Jesuits. I

You may wonder,' I went on, 'how the event of your daughter's death can have been made the means of inflicting injury on another person.' 'No,' said Mrs. Catherick; 'I don't wonder at all. This appears to be your affair. You are interested in my affairs. I am not interested in yours.

To observe processes and construct means is science; to criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy

To observe processes and to construct means is science; to criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy: and because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end

El alcohol te enseña a confundir el fin con los medios.

Grace does not, however, operate in a vacuum. God is free to work as and how he pleases, yet he has covenanted to work generally and regularly through certain means.

The means have murdered the end.

Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional. ...[S]hould Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government, such [acts are] not the law of the land.

Asi no se puede vivir ¿Vivir? Morir sí Niña. Tu quieres acabar con todo. Eso quiero. Porque no conozco otro medio para que los hombres acaben.