Mean Quotes - Page 660

Letting go of the need to control things doesn’t mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. Its a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.

I don't think evil is sexy! I don't think being cruel and mean and hurting other people is sexy! ... Although I have been quite attracted to some very bad boys!

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.