Action Quote by Bashar al-Assad

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and…

— Saul Alinsky

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

— Leon Trotsky

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

— John Dewey

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

— Edward Abbey

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends…

— Alex Gibney

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

— Sebastian Fitzek

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

— Leon Trotsky

We must be particularly careful when we enact policies in response to a specific crime, a specific type of crime, or crime wave simply…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

— Lord Acton

“Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.”

— J. Lloyd Morgan