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• 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… — Louis D. Brandeis
• Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves… — Albert Camus
• 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
• ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Unknown Author
• Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible… — Arthur Koestler
• 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
• In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation? — Unknown Author
• The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a… — Arthur Koestler
• The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. — Unknown Author
• 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

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