Ends Justifies The Means Quotes & Sayings

The intellectualist philosopher who wants to hold words to their precise meaning, and uses them as the countless little tools of clear thinking, is bound to be surprised by the poet's daring. And yet a syncretism of sensitivity keeps words from crystallizing into perfect solids. Unexpected adjectives collect about the focal meaning of the noun. A new environment allows the word to enter not only into one's thoughts, but also into one's daydreams. Language dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

It isn't always true that a critical end justifies desperate means. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. — Penn Jillette

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love. Napoleon Hill — Napoleon Hill

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means ... — Saul Alinsky

THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin. — Yolanda A. Reid

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon

Putting some 'gray in play,' as Chad referred to it, always helped. HE said the act of rationalizing the pros and cons helped to cloud the issues enough to avoid a moral quandary. It allowed us to believe the ends justified the means. Seeing gray helped to remove the black-and-white, right and wrong ethical choices.. . Had I become so jaded in my life that I had actually forgotten the difference between right and wrong? Or had I simply tried to ignore the difference so I could sleep at least two or three hours a night? — Luke Lively

Today, as in Paul's day, the preaching of Christ is done both out of love for the Lord and also out of contention and insincerity. — Paul Silway

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses) — Robert A. Caro

The ends justifies the means — Niccolo Machiavelli

You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable. — Wilhelm Reich

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey. — Tift Merritt

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit. — Rita Mae Brown

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel. — Jon Favreau

The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits. — Jochen Zeitz

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. — Michael Arrington

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. — Emily Giffin

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [ ... ] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good. — Paulo Coelho