Means Justifying The Ends Quotes

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”
― Robert E. Lee

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

“Satan and his devils want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the Future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions?”
― Dostoyevsky

“The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.”
― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“Raus did not look up at the faces. An officer learned not to look at the faces. It was easier if you thought of them as bodies, as tools, means to an end. But just what the end was Raus could no longer say.”
― Miles Watson, Nosferatu