Means Quotes - page 3

Oh, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. (Richard Nixon)
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. View quote
Aesop
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. View quote
Bob Newhart
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (William James)
The end must justify the means. View quote
Matthew Prior
Crikey means gee whiz, wow! View quote
Steve Irwin
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. View quote
Ayn Rand
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. View quote
Yukio Mishima
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals, is the means of his support, is the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
The ends justifies the means. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. View quote
M. H. Abrams
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Radical simply means "grasping things at the root." View quote
Angela Davis
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. View quote
Henry Taylor