Does The End Justify The Means Quotes

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

Daniel N. Robinson

#2. Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Albert Camus

#3. If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

Robert A. Caro

#4. The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

Penn Jillette

#5. To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Charles Dickens

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

Lord Acton

#7. The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Sebastian Fitzek

#8. It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means? When there's no choice left?

James Dashner

#9. I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

Park Geun-hye

#10. The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Ayn Rand

#11. [T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...

James Blish

#12. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

John Connolly

#13. If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Edward Abbey

#14. The end doesn't justify the means.

Ovid

#15. The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.

Robert Ludlum

#16. The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

#17. Sometimes, for the sake of the larger good, one has to do things that may not appear right at the time. Perhaps, a laudable end can justify some questionable means.

Amish Tripathi

#18. The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

Marianne Williamson

#19. The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

Nick Harkaway