Justify The Means Quotes

#1. 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

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

Robert A. Caro

#3. The ends must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

#4. There are people who will tell you that the ends justify the means, right up until they're talking about their own ends. Then, suddenly, morals and ethics matter. Funny thing, that. - Dr. Shannon

Mira Grant

#5. what is lost when the ends are interpreted to justify the means is always greater than what we sought to preserve with our unjustifiable actions.

A.D. Bloom

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

Daniel N. Robinson

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

James Dashner

#8. We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Alex Gibney

#9. The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

James Morcan

#10. The ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Martha Gellhorn

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

Park Geun-hye

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

Ayn Rand

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

Auliq Ice

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

James Blish

#15. Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Roy Baumeister

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

Edward Abbey

#17. 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

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

Leon Trotsky

#19. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

#20. 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

#21. If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Robert Moses

#22. I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Park Geun-hye

#23. I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

Howard Dean

#24. The ends justify the means. It should be WICKED's official logo. They should have a giant banner draped across the front entrance.

James Dashner

#25. The ends do not justify the means

Seth

#26. If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

Saul Alinsky

#27. A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means ...

Paulo Coelho

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Ovid

#32. The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

#33. If something happens that is highly unusual,
and no explanation is readily available,
isn't "I don't know" the only appropriate response?
How can we justify leaping to the extraordinary
conclusion that an unexplained event
is the work of a god?
Unknown means unknown.

Guy P. Harrison

#34. 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

#35. The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Lisa Randall

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

Sebastian Fitzek

#37. J E S U S means
Justify Eternally after being Sanctified with the Understanding of the Scripture .

Osunsakin Adewale

#38. One must consider the final result

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Lord Acton

#40. 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

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

Penn Jillette

#42. Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.

Thomas Jefferson

#43. 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

#44. I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

Leon Redbone

#45. The ends justifies the means

Niccolo Machiavelli

#46. The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them

Paul Dourish

#47. Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Alan Perlis

#48. 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

#49. We despise the grace of God when we observe the Law for the purpose of being justified. The Law is good, holy, and profitable, but it does not justify. To keep the Law in order to be justified means to reject grace, to deny Christ, to despise His sacrifice, and to be lost.

Martin Luther

#50. Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

George Clooney

#51. One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify ... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.

Gilbert F. White

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

Nick Harkaway