End Does Not Justify The Means Quotes

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

Edward Abbey

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

Ayn Rand

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

Park Geun-hye

#4. 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

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

Leon Trotsky

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

Robert A. Caro

#7. 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

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

James Blish

#9. The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.

Auliq Ice

#10. The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

David Letterman

#11. My lord," said D'Artagnan, "Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary - that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.

Alexandre Dumas

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

James Dashner

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

Sebastian Fitzek

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

Lord Acton

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

Daniel N. Robinson

#16. 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

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

Penn Jillette

#18. 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

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

Ovid

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The goal of an end to poverty is so noble that governments have successfully used the end to justify the means. The means have been high taxation of the productive members of society and arrays of bureaucracies that increasingly regulate the lives of us all. 1

Charles Murray

#23. When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'

Alex Gibney

#24. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell

#25. The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

#26. you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What

Carol S. Dweck

#27. Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

Taran Killam

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. It's easier to be God than to see God.

Stephen Gaskin

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

Nick Harkaway