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Image of John Stuart Mill
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
- John Stuart Mill
Collection: Mean
Image of Bjork
I feel Icelandic people are really good at gathering together information and brain power. We're better at that than some kind of Las Vegas money gambling. I mean, I really admire the characteristics in Icelandics, this adventureism. We are famous for it. We are addicted to risk to the point of being foolhardy. And I think that is great in brain power stuff.
- Bjork
Collection: Mean
Image of William Morris
Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.
- William Morris
Collection: Mean
Image of Desmond Tutu
The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men. The market alone puts the whole social system of private ownership of the means of production and free enterprise in order and provides it with sense and meaning.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Susanna Kaysen
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.
- Susanna Kaysen
Collection: Mean
Image of T. H. White
Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
- T. H. White
Collection: Mean
Image of Alice Walker
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
- Alice Walker
Collection: Mean
Image of William Graham Sumner
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.
- William Graham Sumner
Collection: Mean
Image of William Safire
This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.
- William Safire
Collection: Mean
Image of Zadie Smith
You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
- Zadie Smith
Collection: Mean
Image of Emma Stone
I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.
- Emma Stone
Collection: Mean
Image of Henri Poincare
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.
- Henri Poincare
Collection: Mean
Image of Laozi
The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
- Laozi
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayn Rand
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Mean
Image of Sandra Bernhard
I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.
- Sandra Bernhard
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Shields
Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.
- Mark Shields
Collection: Mean
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Mean
Image of Andy Stanley
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
- Andy Stanley
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Moyers
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
- Bill Moyers
Collection: Mean
Image of Calvin Trillin
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
- Calvin Trillin
Collection: Mean
Image of Will Rogers
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Mean
Image of Mitt Romney
You look at that Democratic debate. I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean, in one week, he went from saying he is going to sit down for tea with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Mean
Image of Rafael Nadal
Today people hit the ball with much more strength. Almost every player is capable of playing a winning stroke from any position. This means the balls arrive more quickly. If you want to reach them, you have to slow down from a high speed or suddenly change direction. These are moments when you can injure yourself, and that's what wears us out.
- Rafael Nadal
Collection: Mean
Image of John Waters
There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before.
- John Waters
Collection: Mean
Image of William Blackstone
Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.
- William Blackstone
Collection: Mean
Image of Haruki Murakami
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
- Haruki Murakami
Collection: Mean
Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Mean
Image of Irvine Welsh
I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.
- Irvine Welsh
Collection: Mean
Image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Collection: Mean
Image of Colin Powell
Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.
- Colin Powell
Collection: Mean
Image of Yoko Ono
The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.
- Yoko Ono
Collection: Mean
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Mean
Image of Toni Morrison
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: Mean
Image of Ai Weiwei
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Mean
Image of Michelle Obama
One reason we planted the White House vegetable garden was to set an example about what food can mean, but to also begin a broader conversation about how we're feeding our kids, what they know about the food that they eat, how they're taking care of themselves.
- Michelle Obama
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
I love Mexico. I mean, Mexico, I have thousands of people from Mexico that work for me. Thousands. Hispanics.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon - come to an end.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Antonin Scalia
Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.
- Antonin Scalia
Collection: Mean
Image of Elizabeth Hoyt
Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.
- Elizabeth Hoyt
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Miller
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
- Donald Miller
Collection: Mean