His mean justified his end.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

— Leon Trotsky

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing…

— John Pilger

In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I…

— Steve Albini

“Exitus probatur,” he said. The end is justified. “Ergo acta probantur,” said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.”

— Alex Grecian

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an…

— Shirin Ebadi

Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is…

— Shirin Ebadi

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

— Kamand Kojouri

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one…

— Gary L. Francione

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

— Howard Dean

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

— Bruce Feiler

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open…

— Anonymous

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

— Dalai Lama