A Quote by Roy Baumeister
Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.
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Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint
Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.
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.
In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.
The ends do not justify the means
The ends must justify the means.
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
I never think the ends justify the means.
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
I think in general the ends do not justify the means.
I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.
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