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Ends Justify The Means Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an..."
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. Ursula K. Le Guin
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers. Arthur Koestler
Georges Bernanos quote: "The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive..."
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. Georges Bernanos
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable. Wilhelm Reich
that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit. Arthur Koestler
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. Arthur Koestler
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. Justice Brandeis
Emily Giffin quote: "Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the..."
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. Emily Giffin
Leon Trotsky quote: "The end may justify the means as long as there is something..."
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. Leon Trotsky
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. Aldous Huxley
Martha Gellhorn quote: "the ends never justify the means because IT never ends."
the ends never justify the means because IT never ends. Martha Gellhorn
Matthew Prior quote: "The end must justify the means."
The end must justify the means. Matthew Prior
Matthew Prior quote: "The ends must justify the means."
The ends must justify the means. Matthew Prior
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. Aldous Huxley
Paulo Coelho quote: "A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means...."
A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means... Paulo Coelho

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