Ends Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

— Ellen Glasgow

I'm not an expert at morality, but isn't that wrong?

— Tracy Morgan

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."

— Ivan Boesky

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

— Jean Anouilh

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

— Jodi Picoult

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be…

— J. Vernon McGee

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer