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Mean Quotes by Joseph Sobran
- The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
- The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them…
- A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides…
- Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social…
- Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little…
- In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people…
- Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the…
- Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.
- Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
- The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious…
- An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.
- Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
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- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams