Top 80 Russell Means Quotes
#1. I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
Ian Astbury
#2. Russell Means is quite a legend in the Indian community for what he's been able to achieve. It was a real honor to work with a guy who's been on the front lines of fighting for what he believes in.
Karl Urban
#3. Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell
#4. No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed.
Russell Means
#5. I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people ... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.
Russell Means
#6. When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
Bertrand Russell
#7. The nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities are sets of social conventions devised by humans to satisfy their needs.
Bertrand Russell
#8. The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.
Russell D. Moore
#9. 'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
Russell Means
#10. Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
Bertrand Russell
#11. Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
Russell Brand
#12. What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.
Russell Means
#13. So nearly everyone had an opinion. Polls showed that most supported the Russell program, an informal name for Sax's plans to terraform the planet by all means possible, as fast as they could.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#14. All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
Russell M. Nelson
#15. What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
James Russell Lowell
#16. I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.
Russell Means
#17. The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
Russell Means
#18. Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.
Russell Means
#19. Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
Russell B. Long
#20. So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
Russell Means
#22. They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
Russell Means
#23. Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
Nipsey Russell
#24. I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.
Russell Means
#25. It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.
Bertrand Russell
#26. God changed Jacob's name to "Israel," which means "one who wrestles with God." As far as I know, Israel is still the only nation named after a wrestler.
Mark Russell
#27. To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
M. Russell Ballard
#28. I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Bertrand Russell
#29. Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
Russell Smith
#30. America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively, ... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.
Karen Russell
#31. The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induce
others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their
own.
Bertrand Russell
#32. Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.
Russell D. Moore
#33. I'm a human being, I'm not anyone's mascot! And I am America's conscience. And that's what they don't want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.
Russell Means
#34. In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
Russell Means
#35. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
Bertrand Russell
#36. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
#37. Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.
Russell Means
#38. Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.
Bertrand Russell
#39. Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means, and what you're likely to be after based on your previous behavior and other information it collects about you.
Stuart J. Russell
#40. Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.
Russell Means
#41. Resistance to temptation means taking desire seriously. Both Jesus and Satan do.
Russell D. Moore
#42. For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
Karen Russell
#43. It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
Russell Means
#44. Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.
Russell Brand
#45. Those in power are so afraid of losing it, they will do anything to keep the world under their control. Even when 'anything' means ignoring dangerous truths that threaten to grow more powerful the longer they're unaddressed.
Romina Russell
#46. ...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.
Russell Shorto
#47. If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
Russell Means
#48. We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
Dora Russell
#49. Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success.
Romina Russell
#51. May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.
Russell Means
#52. If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
Russell Means
#53. Individualism. Campbell said, "All religions are true in that the metaphor is true." I think this means that religions are meant to be literary maps, not literal doctrines, a signpost to the unknowable, a hymn to the inconceivable. Edward Slingerland is a professor
Russell Brand
#54. I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.
David O. Russell
#55. Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.
Russell D. Moore
#56. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
Russell Means
#57. Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
Russell Kirk
#58. I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.
Russell Brand
#59. When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!
Russell Means
#60. I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Russell Means
#61. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
Russell Means
#62. Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.
Russell H. Conwell
#63. I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.
Russell Means
#64. I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.
Russell Means
#65. Mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that "4" means the same as "2+2". Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious.
Bertrand Russell
#66. I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.
Russell Wilson
#67. The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.
Russell Kirk
#68. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful
Russell Brand
#69. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.
Willy Russell
#70. Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.
Russell Means
#71. The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.
Walter Russell
#72. Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest
Russell Means
#73. I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.
Russell Means
#74. Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.
Russell Conwell
#75. The problem of the social reformer, therefore, is not merely to seek means of security, for if these means when found provide no deep satisfaction the security will be thrown away for the glory of adventure.
Bertrand Russell
#76. The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
#77. Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
#78. Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.
Russell Means
#79. The Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.
Letty M. Russell
#80. It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.
Russell Means
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