Quotes on Mean

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

The Devil hinders me. You know I say _x000D_ Just what I think, and nothing more nor less, _x000D_ And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer. _x000D_ I cannot say one thing and mean another. _x000D_ If I can't pray, I will not make believe!