The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. — Sebastian Fitzek Copy Share Image
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand! Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet.… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge… — Amy Coney Barrett Copy Share Image
“But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere." "'They?' Who are 'they?'" "I don't… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“No matterwhat he did to make Claire’s life better or show her he’d changed, these memories would always linger in the recesses… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
“It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“What about the lame, the sick and the destitute?” Is an often-voiced question. Most other countries in the world have attempted to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is my belief that the sentence "The end justifies the means"—that suppression, repression, and/or murder become somehow acceptable if committed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it.… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“Parenthetically, in the West’s current war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, it would be good for the leaders to remember this “Islamic tactic… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Thoughts such as: “the end justifies the means.” “They are not going to realize it” and so many other sayings, reflect how… — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a person's belief that he belongs to the "remnant church," and possesses "the truth" can lead him to act in ways… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
“that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they… — James Cook Copy Share Image
“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
