The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The ends must justify the means.
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can 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.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.
I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.