A Quote by Saul Alinsky
One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.
The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.
I think we'll go through a period when there's a revival of concern about ethics. After Watergate, we got the Ethics in Government Act, which has a lot of additional regulations.
In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
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