The ends justify the means
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In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR The ends must justify the means.
ALEXANDER POPE The question is not whether the ends justifies the means, or the means justify the ends, but rather ...
JIM GENOVESE If they're gonna get you, they wanna get you, ... And they use Machiavellian technique. The ends jus...
JOHN GOTTI But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics...
PARK GEUN-HYE You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.
ROBERT E. LEE Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.
ROBERT E. LEE It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Or at least the ends justify being really mean!
FRANK MILLER We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wro...
ALEX GIBNEY The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Beginnings do not divulge their ends,
MARTY RUBIN If the end does not justify the means - what can?
EDWARD ABBEY The ends justifies the means
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The end MAY justify the means, only if the "END" is JUSTIFIED.
ENCARNACION VASQUEZ The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Survival justifies any means.
TOBA BETA Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
THOMAS GRIFFITH A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
LEON TROTSKY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
LEON TROTSKY The first thing I'd ask him is to justify his means. He takes people's lives. He blows up a lot of t...
DAVE MARASH The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a...
WILHELM REICH The means are inconsequential, only the ens matter
RITA STRADLING Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like ...
TSUGUMI OHBA I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democra...
PARK GEUN-HYE Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
MAX MCKEOWN All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
NANCY GIBBS Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.
SEBASTIAN FITZEK If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy you...
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JAY EDWARDS For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core...
RUTH GLICK We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the ...
ERIC HOFFER The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age
ALBERT EINSTEIN Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.
GAELIC PROVERB A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
JOHN ENOCH POWELL A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
MARIA CALLAS Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'princ...
RICK PERLSTEIN If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
ENOCH POWELL Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce mean...
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual anal...
ROBERT HUGHES It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...
KARL MARX Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
IMMANUEL KANT Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary mean...
ARISTOTLE As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO Many people are blinded by the ends that the research hopes to produce and are willing to go to any ...
LARRY WEBER That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
MARIA CALLAS Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or sc...
BILL KELLER He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the...
JOCHEN ZEITZ It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
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THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
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THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
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