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“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.”

Looks Mean Persons Said Kids My Own Figures Mirrors Sticks Dumb Justify Mean Person

Author:Uma Thurman

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

Mean Has Beens Ends Social Behinds Mindset Medical Experiments Justify Impetus Ends Justify The Means

Author:James Morcan

“I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.”

“The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.”

Mean Ends Used Desire Justify Desirable Ends 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.”

“The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them”

Mean Effort Design Models Research Outcomes Justify Hybrid Initiate Often Can

Book:Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Source: Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

“Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.”

Mean Whole Law Justify Prostitution Invincible Pillars Jurisprudence

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean I Can Ends Suffering Hurt Animal Results Ten Yeah Addresses Justify Ends 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.”