Top 100 Means Of Quotes
#1. The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
Kim Jong Il
#2. The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.
Anthony Daniels
#3. Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
Michael Gove
#4. So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.
Emma Goldman
#5. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...
Charlotte M. Mason
#6. I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
Liz Phair
#7. If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.
Carl Rogers
#8. Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.
Fannie Farmer
#9. Music is a means of rapid transportation.
John Cage
#10. When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the market-place.
Ludwig Von Mises
#11. We have no means of discriminating between right and wrong if we do not take into account others' feelings, others' suffering.
Dalai Lama XIV
#13. In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
Katherine Boo
#14. Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
Nancy Duarte
#15. War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
Philip Caputo
#16. To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.
Calvin Coolidge
#17. Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself.
H. Ernest Hunt
#18. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle.
#19. Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.
Joseph Addison
#20. A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, by not swallowing them.
Charles Edward Montague
#21. Education is a means of empowerment, never take it for granted.
Always make time for independent learning.
Find your passion in life and pursue it with your heart and soul.
Never stop believing in yourself.
Deborah Gabriel
#22. The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#23. To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul!
Charlotte Bronte
#24. The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
Friedrich Engels
#25. At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
Charles Baxter
#26. The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Edgar Degas
#27. So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope.
Charles Dickens
#28. The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
Maria Montessori
#30. An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#31. Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
John F. Kennedy
#32. To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. Some shadows got shorter and some longer, as they say in Karhide.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.
Leon Pinsker
#34. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#35. The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
Laozi
#36. The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
J. P. Morgan
#37. An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].
Nicholas Of Cusa
#38. Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
Maria Montessori
#39. The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.
David O. McKay
#40. By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#41. Textbooks in economics, which explain the economic purpose of money (a unit of account, a store of value, and a means of exchange), usually neglect to mention the chief role of money in America: a source of entertainment.
Michael Lewis
#42. There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
George Galloway
#43. At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Thomas Malthus
#45. The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
Coventry Patmore
#46. Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.
David Luiz
#47. A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Suicide in Korean culture is a highly emotive means of protest. The regime regards it as a form of defection.
Hyeonseo Lee
#49. Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment.
Caroline Myss
#50. Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.
William C. Bryant
#51. TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
Lucille Ball
#52. Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
Philip Yancey
#53. I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur
#54. One means of worshipping Aphrodite was as, or through, a hierodule. The word means "sacred servant" but tends to be translated as "temple prostitute," missing the larger idea that sexuality and sensuality have spiritual power and energy,
Renna Shesso
#55. Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#56. God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
Johannes Kepler
#57. It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.
Donna J. Haraway
#58. The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
John James Audubon
#59. The Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.
Jim Butcher
#60. How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation
for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
Soren Kierkegaard
#61. All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.
Peter Medawar
#62. The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.
Stephen Covey
#64. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)
Jonathan Kellerman
#65. Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
Sigurd F. Olson
#66. English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.
Robert McCrum
#67. We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who actually listens? Maybe a few pot-smokers.
Alan W. Watts
#68. Good theology helps us keep music in its proper place. We learn that music isn't an end in itself but rather a means of expressing the worship already present in our hearts through the new life we've received in Jesus Christ.
Bob Kauflin
#69. He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
#70. History is distinguished
from nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will.
Albert Camus
#71. There was no reason to deny humans the benefits of human civilisation, no matter what warlords, kings, emperors and even elected politicians thought about it. A society so primitive that it used gold as a means of exchange and practised the slave trade, didn't deserve to exist.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#72. In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#73. The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
Colin Powell
#74. A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
Anthony De Mello
#75. For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
Emmet Gowin
#76. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.
Ulysses S. Grant
#78. There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Neville Cardus
#79. It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his greatest satisfaction. But writing is a means of communication. It is not enough to speak; you must also be heard. The message must be received and understood.
Christopher Milne
#80. If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism.
Upton Sinclair
#81. Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
Charles E. Burchfield
#82. We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
John Stott
#83. As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
#84. One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
Christian Lous Lange
#86. There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.
Paul Bourget
#87. A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
Edmund Burke
#88. Feeling are communicated by means of ideas, which are their intellectual equivalent; at the sound of the words conveying the ideas the appropriate emotion is evoked.
Aldous Huxley
#89. Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.
John Ciardi
#90. Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.
J.P. Moreland
#91. By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
Umberto Eco
#92. He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise the names, the expressions, and the parables taken from the Scriptures [by the gnostics], but will by no means acknowledge the blasphemous use which these men make of them.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#93. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.
Idries Shah
#94. The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
George Combe
#95. Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#96. As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#97. Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
Iain M. Banks
#98. The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
Horace
#99. On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.
Benjamin Franklin
#100. Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institutions are unequal.
Albert Einstein
