#means

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#bring #commit #conviction #crimes #criminal

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#bad manners #good #good manners #manners #means

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#great #greatness #ignorance #impossible #make

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#against #color #genocide #government #hiv

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#democracy #grow #grow up #means #president

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #calling #doll #edwardian #features

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#avoid #causes #collaboration #discussion #good

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#bargain #conclude #deception #end #infatuated

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#arc #chastity #does #flaming #joan

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#badly #democracy #educated #government #means