Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
But when I first got cancer after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
If I have affected someone in a positive way that means a lot to me.
African art is functional it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities through legislation and other means and to increase women's representation in politics which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
War is not an independent phenomenon but the continuation of politics by different means.
We discussed politics but we also talked about the importance of hard work personal responsibility living within your means keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art in poetry in music of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful moving or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
Write verse not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry then don't by any means mother it but try your hand at verse.
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means you have missed the body of the poem.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.