Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt