Ends Justifying The Means Quotes

#1. You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so. You didn't fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage.

Amish Tripathi

#2. I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing.

Bill Maher

#3. The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

William Shakespeare

#4. Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Henry Knox

#5. When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

Ehud Olmert

#6. The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Iain Banks

#7. You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Abraham Lincoln

#8. No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Anthony Anderson

#10. I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Andy Serkis

#11. I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

Greg Gutfeld

#12. It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Joseph O'Connor

#13. It isn't true what they say about mothers. We don't hate our sons'
girlfriends. The sleazy ones - maybe. But we're mostly delighted and a little startled when a wonderful girl loves our son. And relieved the son is smart enough to love her back. I'm grateful,
Beth.

Angela Morrison

#14. It isn't always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend
or to keep one.

Robert E.Lee

#16. Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.

Anthony Browne

#17. But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.

Kate Elliott