Means Quotes

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.