Quotes About The Ends Justify The Means

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

James Morcan

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Robert A. Caro

#6. Being a writer
is all about having something to say. And it'd better be interesting. If you don't have anything
interesting to say, don't become a writer. Become something useful. Like a doctor.

Candace Bushnell

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

Roy Baumeister

#8. I'm very boring. But I'm a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don't care what other people think of them. I just think there's something so interesting about that kind of confidence.

Melissa McCarthy

#9. Most souls wait for a very long time. In the end, the peace they seek is usually within themselves, not within the confines of the world they left.

Jason Gurley

#10. I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

Henny Youngman

#11. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

Neil Postman

#12. He danced across my heart like a pirate,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over every hidden treasure,
Drowning me in his fantasy.

Tanzy Sayadi

#13. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

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

Martha Gellhorn

#15. The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

Plato

#16. 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

#17. One must consider the final result

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Lord Acton

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

Daniel N. Robinson

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

Penn Jillette

#21. 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

#22. The ends must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

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

Howard Dean

#24. Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

Jodie Foster

#25. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Banksy

#26. The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#27. An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

Kathy Mattea

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Robert Moses

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

Park Geun-hye

#33. In a relationship, we are nourishment for each other. So we have to select the kind of food we offer the other person, the kind of food that can help our relationships thrive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Alan Perlis

#35. The ends do not justify the means

Seth

#36. The ends justifies the means

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Saul Alinsky

#38. Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence."
"It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist."
"Uh-huh.

Josh Lanyon

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

Paulo Coelho

#40. Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

Marianne Moore

#41. Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

Jay-Z

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

Ovid