A Quote by Seth

The ends do not justify the means — © Seth
The 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?
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.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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.
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.
the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.
Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.
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.
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