Quotes about mean
mean intelligent race
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes. Alfred Russel Wallace
mean strive certain
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true. Alfred Molina
mean religion adherence
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. Alfred North Whitehead
mean doe elements
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
mean imperfection competition
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
mean views order
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods. Alfred Jodl
mean ideas mad
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. Alfred Jarry
mean people mean-people
Words don't mean, people mean. Alfred Korzybski
mean men benefits
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life. Alexander Berkman
mean order harmony
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.
mean thinking imagination
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person! Alexander Alekhine
meaningful progress ingredients
But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. Alex Campbell
mean excellence progress
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
mean people easier
I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier! Alex Flinn
meaningful fun drinking
Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful. Alcuin
mean light order
But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light. Albrecht Durer
mean anxiety consistency
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. Aldrich Ames
mean eye hunting
We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view. Aldo Leopold
mean attention pay
Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now. Aldous Huxley
mean ends determine
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
mean civilization class
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
mean attention pay
We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
mean happens insignificant
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
mean technology progress
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
meaningful country children
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
mean lost seems
We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it. Albert Pike
mean men two
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
mean men light
Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills). Albert Einstein
mean independent thinking
To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.
mean self defense
We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity
mean independent science
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.
mean agreement race
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.
mean secret essentials
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.