Ends Justifies The Means Quotes

“If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)”
― Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

“Putting some 'gray in play,' as Chad referred to it, always helped. HE said the act of rationalizing the pros and cons helped to cloud the issues enough to avoid a moral quandary. It allowed us to believe the ends justified the means. Seeing gray helped to remove the black-and-white, right and wrong ethical choices.. . Had I become so jaded in my life that I had actually forgotten the difference between right and wrong? Or had I simply tried to ignore the difference so I could sleep at least two or three hours a night?”
― Luke Lively

“He was quick to rationalize the necessity of these unfortunate casualties, but it did not escape his notice that every justification he mounted was eerily similar to the ones that Marat used to execute his own barbarism.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“If you hold your nose to sleep with skunks, their ticks and fleas still give you disease.”
― Patricia V. Davis