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Means Quotes by Saul Alinsky
- Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction…
- A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point…
- The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends…
- The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means....
- From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what…
- The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must…
- As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the…
- The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.
- One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
- Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey.…
- Change means movement. Movement means friction.
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange