The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
Aldous HuxleyAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: July 26, 1894
- Died: November 22, 1963
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