Certain Quote by Howard Zinn

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

— Marquis de Sade

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be…

— Herman Melville

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Edward Abbey

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention…

— Jane Austen

The ends must justify the means.

— Matthew Prior

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

— Immanuel Kant

“The ends do not justify the means”

— Seth

“proceeds from the conviction that if the individual temporarily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature,”

— Larry Korn

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the…

— Marianne Williamson

“There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones—there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, and happy, as there surely are those half-clad,…

— Solomon Northup