End Justifies Quotes
- The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
- To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to… — Louis D. Brandeis
- The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old… — Arthur Koestler
- The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,… — Henry Grady Weaver
- The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.... — Saul Alinsky
- In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and… — Arthur Koestler
- The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. — Sebastian Fitzek
- Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies… — Joseph Murray
- The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. — John Dewey
- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is… — Wilhelm Reich
- There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may… — Aaron Allston
- The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin
- And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what… — Nick Harkaway