Quotes About End justifies means

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.

Exitus probatur," he said. The end is justified. "Ergo acta probantur," said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.

Where you end up is the thing, not how you get there. How you get there, that's just something to be debated by the suckers who never make it out.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.

The Communist dogma that the end justifies all means was also doing much harm. It had thrown the door wide open to the worst human passions, and discredited the ideals of the Revolution. The

They observe the principle, Master Witcher, that since the end is justified, the means must be found.

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.

That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.

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.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The end excuses any evil.

Come what may now or subsequently. Never give up on what God has called you to do. That is to say, your destiny. For sooner or later in your lifetime, the End will justify the means. I mean, you will surely have a cause to be happy that you fulfilled your destiny. Because, to the best of my knowledge no one has ever regretted fulfilling his or her destiny. And so, believe you me, your own case will not be different. You can take my words for it/that. -Emeasoba George

Power is not a means; it is an end.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

Il potere non è un mezzo, è un fine. Non si stabilisce una dittatura nell'intento di salvaguardare una rivoluzione; ma si fa una rivoluzione nell'intento di stabilire una dittatura. Il fine della persecuzione è la persecuzione. Il fine della tortura è la tortura. Il fine del potere è il potere.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictator-ship.

that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

He who wills the end, wills the means also, and the means must involve some risks, and even some losses.

For two hundred years the radical left has believed in a religion promising a heaven on earth whose end justifies any means. That is why progressives like Lenin and Stalin and Pol Pot killed so many innocent people.