Means Quotes

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I'm going to win. And I'll do it by any means necessary. If you're not willing to go that route, don't come my way.