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title: "11 Justifies Means Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [the ends justifies the means](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/the-ends-justifies-the-means/)

[Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/)

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> [“The End Justifies the Means”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-morawski/the-end-justifies-the-means/)

[Ed Morawski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-morawski/)

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> [Survival justifies any means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toba-beta/survival-justifies-any-means/)

[Toba Beta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toba-beta/)

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> [“Struggle for peace justifies the means.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-kristian-goldmund-aumann/struggle-for-peace-justifies-the-means/)

[sir kristian goldmund aumann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-kristian-goldmund-aumann/)

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> [“To some people, it's not the end that justifies the means. It's the process that they're after, (...)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-m-stunich/to-some-people-it-s-not-the-end-that-justifies-the-means-it-s-the/)

[C.M. Stunich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-m-stunich/)

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> [Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-giffin/life-s-not-black-and-white-sometimes-the-ends-justifies-the-means/)

[Emily Giffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-giffin/)

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> [The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penn-jillette/the-end-never-justifies-the-means-because-there-is-no-end-there-are/)

[Penn Jillette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penn-jillette/)

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> [The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bernanos/the-first-sign-of-corruption-in-a-society-that-is-still-alive-is-that/)

[Georges Bernanos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bernanos/)

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> [The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-fitzek/the-end-justifies-the-means-sometimes-you-have-to-do-the-wrong-thing/)

[Sebastian Fitzek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-fitzek/)

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> [The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/the-end-justifies-the-means-only-when-the-means-used-are-such-as/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [It has become intuitively and painfully obvious to me that Prime Minister Netanyahu's definition of 'the right to defend' embraces an invidious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-n-green/it-has-become-intuitively-and-painfully-obvious-to-me-that-prime/)

[Al N. Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-n-green/)

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