Quotes about mean
mean organization paris
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune. Friedrich Engels
mean independent government
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.
mean minorities doe
In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved. Friedrich August von Hayek
mean evil deception
To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.
mean fate men
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse....
mean class evil
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.
mean light democracy
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
mean evil credit
To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.
mean may scientific-method
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
mean done
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
mean entrepreneur competition
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
mean individual ends
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity
mean successful men
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.
mean government organization
The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote to pubic purposes should be under the control of government, is wholly alien to the basic principles of a free society.
mean liberty principles
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
mean economic pursuit
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
mean responsibility opportunity
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
mean our-generation people
What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.
mean thinking yesterday
Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion Harvey Fierstein
mean night let-it-go
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
mean arrogance three
I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance. Harvey Mackay
mean skills judgment
Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.
mean
Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
mean reality blue
The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue. Louise Bourgeois
mean quality
Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill. Louise Hay
mean problem feels
When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.
mean affirmation helping
When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.
mean desire fit
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. George Bancroft
mean acting want
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it. Gene Wilder
means nation reform survival
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival Edmund Burke
meaning measure
The end to the measure and meaning of my life. August Wilson
mean slip
Ah, he's just a hot-rat. He let something slip that he shouldn't have. He didn't mean anything by it. Brandon Meriweather
mean points run
You've got to get the points where you can, ... Talladega and Martinsville are wildcards for us. Does that mean we won't run well at those tracks? No, we can. But we need to get as many points here as possible. Greg Biffle