Means Quotes

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

A plan of campaign should anticipate everything which the enemy can do, and contain within itself the means of thwarting him.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Each of us lives in two realms, the "within" and the "without." The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means.

In the long run of history, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

They are talking about peace as a distant goal, as an end we seek, but one day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.

One of the great philosophical debates of the centuries has been over the whole question of ends and means. In a real sense, the end is pre-existent in the means; the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process. In the long run of history, immoral means cannot bring about moral ends.

I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

A simple "I love you" means more than money.

Sometimes people ask songwriters what a song means, not realizing if they had more words to explain it they would've used them in the song.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.