Concern Quote by Saul Alinsky

“one’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s distance from the scene of conflict.”

— Saul Alinsky

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter…

— Arthur Koestler

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means....

— Saul Alinsky

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

— Lord Acton

“The means are inconsequential, only the ends matter”

— Rita Stradling

“Ethics define what people ought to do; morals describe what people actually do. The difference between them is between the normal and the descriptive.”

— R.C. Sproul

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

— Howard Dean

“Ethics is about how we inhabit uncertainty, together.”

— Brian Massumi

“Ethics is not about the way things are, it's about the way they ought to be.”

— Michael Josephson

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

— Daniel N. Robinson

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”

— Rebecca Goldstein