Ends Quote by 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

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

— Saul Alinsky

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

— Saul Alinsky

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

— Leon Trotsky

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— Howard Dean

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

— Leon Trotsky

The ends must justify the means.

— Matthew Prior

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

— Saul Alinsky

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

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

— Robert Moses