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  • You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , New York Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Swartz Quotes , Sadness Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mean Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Mean Quotes , Deep Thought Quotes