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

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world that's not realistic.

Discussion in class which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests which means the union bosses' interests not the members.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Success is not a destination but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about and having success means I can do more.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity and whatever lesson you work him and never take above half his strength nor ride him till he is weary but a little at a time and often.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength and so of gaining or retaining a good name are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others to hide hurt feelings and to forgive quickly.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Anyone could be in the orchestra or sports team or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable rich working. It's like the Romans they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Economic progress in capitalist society means turmoil.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

A free society will abide unofficial private discrimination even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

In much of society research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.