“The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.” MeanHas BeensEndsSocialBehindsMindsetMedicalExperimentsJustifyImpetusEnds Justify The Means Author:James Morcan
“The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.” MeanEndsUsedDesireJustifyDesirableEnds Justify The Means Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.” PeopleIfsMenMayMeanEndsWholeGovernmentLawOrderLibertyTeachTeacherCrimeExampleTerribleIllConvictionCriminalsEvery ManCommitSecureAdministrationJustifyAnarchyContemptInvitesContagiousRetributionLiberty And JusticeCriminal LawEnds Justify The MeansConflicting Opinions Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanI CanEndsSufferingHurtAnimalResultsTenYeahAddressesJustifyEnds Justify The Means Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.” IfsMeanLongEndsStatesUseCausesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesViolenceDiseaseNotionInternationalTerrorismPeacefulCanadaJustifyInternational CommunityEnds Justify The Means Author:Richard M. Nixon