Means
Means are the instruments to satisfy a higher end (Simon, 1997). Although they are used to achieve a higher end, they are not neutral in value. When policy makers devise their strategies, they choose their means according to their internal values and consequences.
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Famous quotes containing the word means:
““M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old.”
—Howard Johnson (1887–1941)
“Then is it scentless, weightless, strengthless, wholly
Untruthful? Try whispering it slowly.
No, it means you. Or, since you’re past and gone,
It means what we feel now about you then:
How beautiful you were, and near, and young....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)