Top 37 End Justifies The Means Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means ... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents ... '
In short, the end justifies the means.
Henry Kissinger
#4. There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.
Luke Skywalker
Aaron Allston
#5. The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.
Sebastian Fitzek
#6. The end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither will the end.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.
Nick Harkaway
#8. People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.
Alex Gibney
#9. The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos
#10. 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
#12. I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
Elie Wiesel
#13. Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!
Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.
Toba Beta
#14. Every end justifies the means? - No! The end justifies all the means? - No! Every end justifies all the means? - No, never!" - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
Preston Fleming
#15. If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means ... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.
Ingrid Newkirk
#16. 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.
Louis D. Brandeis
#17. 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
#18. The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
John Dewey
#19. There's nothing revolutionary about reinforcing the virgin/whore dichotomy.
Jessica Valenti
#21. It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
Jackie Walorski
#22. Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.
Frederick Lenz
#23. I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.
Sully Tarnish
#24. The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.
Penn Jillette
#25. A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
Leon Trotsky
#27. If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)
Robert A. Caro
#29. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
#30. The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means ...
Saul Alinsky
#31. Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
Walt Disney Company
#32. She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder.
John Inverdale
#33. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.
Gary Hopkins
#34. When a holy was is declared, the end justifies any means to those crusaders.
Colleen Gleason
#35. To some people, it's not the end that justifies the means. It's the process that they're after, ( ... )
C.M. Stunich
#37. Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
Michael Crichton
