Adequate Means Quotes:

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.58, Ultramarine Publishing

topic: Mean, Reality, Understanding, Adequate Means

The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.

- Errico Malatesta

source: "Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta".

topic: Mean, Men, Two, Adequate Means

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

- Horace Mann

topic: Heart, Sacrifice, Toil, Removal, Adequate Means

The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

source: Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.204, Library of America

topic: Real, Character, Mean, Needs Of Others, Adequate Means

The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action. Einstein's Theory of Relativity

- Max Born

topic: Differential Equations, Adequate Means, Theories Of Relativity