A Quote by Georges Bernanos

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos

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Georges Bernanos
French - Author
February 20, 1888 - July 5, 1948

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

Bashar al-Assad

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

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.

Richard M. Nixon

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

Nick Harkaway

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

John Dewey

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

Penn Jillette

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

Saul Alinsky

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.

Kelly Easton

'Fast and Furious' continues to be alive, which means 'Tokyo Drift' is still alive, which means DK is very much alive.

Brian Tee

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

Elie Wiesel

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

Nicholas Sparks

Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?

Walt Kelly

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Sebastian Fitzek

There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an 'Inside Men' sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.

Lee Byung-hun

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