mean quotes

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.”

Mean quotes - The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. ”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?”

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ”

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. ”

“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”

“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ”

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ”

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ”

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ”

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”

“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ”

“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. ”

“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.”

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ”

“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”