A Quote by Saul Alinsky

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

Saul Alinsky

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Saul Alinsky
American - Activist
January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

Daniel N. Robinson

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

Brent Weeks

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Robert Moses

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

Paulo Coelho

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

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Albert Camus

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Aldous Huxley

The ends do not justify the means

Seth

The ends must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

Howard Dean

I never think the ends justify the means.

Zal Batmanglij

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Aldous Huxley

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Martha Gellhorn

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Jimmy Carter

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

Jay-Z

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.

Christopher Dawson

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