Means Quotes

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Heaven means to be one with God.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.