They have beginnings and middles and ends.

The end justifies the means.

It is the end that justifies the means.

Essentially for the same purposes and by similar means

I am perfectly capable of distinguishing between ends and means and I know very well that ends are the important thing and that achieving the ends depends very much on the means employed.

Ends don't justify the means, the means will determine the end result.

In the EU, we are very aware of the fact that the combating of terrorism must not involve infringements of human rights. Just as the end must not justify the means and can never legitimise terrorism, so the end must not justify the means in our fight against terrorism.

Firstly, I make a very clear distinction between ends and means.

We therefore need to have a balanced relationship between means and ends.

We do not believe, however, that the end justifies the means.

Both media are also used for criminal and degrading purposes.

Supposing I take the money. And I kid myself it's a means to an end. Well, it isn't.

But good ends do not justify any means whatever.

IN THE CHAIR MR CRAVINHO Vice President (')

I would therefore like to make it clear that that I am not confusing ends with means.

We do not believe that the end justifies the means but that the means prefigure the end.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

What will be next in line if we give in now and accept that the end justifies the means?

I think that whoever wills the end must also will the means.

I believe, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, that the abolition of this democratic deficit is not only a matter for amendments to the Treaty of Rome but above all a matter of actual respect of the democratic principle on which the Community stands.

There is perhaps, however, cause to stand up and ask ourselves whether the end always justifies the means.

No matter how noble the goals may be, however, the ends cannot justify the means.

The problem is not the ends, but rather the means used by the Council to achieve them.

It talks about harmonizing corporate taxation.

I welcome the fact that Mr Marques has outlined the goals, means and conditions of the Cohesion Fund.

He got it into his head that his daughter will be the Radio Star and he's not bothered who he tramples on to get what he wants.

They say that they will, and believe in, the ends, yet they refuse the financial means towards those ends what hypocricy!

Promoting the use of digital media for educational purposes by students who do not have regular access to the internet.

Nevertheless, we must provide ourselves with the means to achieve our ambitions, particularly when we are talking about nuclear activity.

Terrorist leaders, whoever and wherever they are, have need of resources to be able to achieve their goals, namely

While there were fears at the beginning of 1991 that without countermeasures being taken, agricultural spending would actually exceed the guideline, it is now clear that this will not be the case.

Mr President, doping is symptomatic of the inverted values of our societies, in which the end has come to justify the means.

The end does not justify the means, especially when it is the means respect for the fundamental rights of every human being, and the rejection of discrimination between citizens and non citizens that form the essence of our democracies.

Now they see that oil prices have come down in the past year or so by between 50 and 70 and they want to know why they are still on social welfare with nothing to do all day.

At the same time, it should be remembered that it is the Member States which decide how the results are to be achieved, that is to say which method is to be applied and which course of action adopted.

The Council and the Commission have joined forces here which could even be a good thing, but I would like to use Machiavelli's words here and say, 'Not every end justifies the means'.

Finally, something which irritates me no end is that Mr Solana, as well as a number of fellow MEPs, establish a false link between the end and means to used to reach the end, or the link between the war and the means deployed.

For the implementation of joint deployment plans, the Member States concerned should pool and deploy the means of control and inspection that they have committed to such plans.

By using economic means to pursue its foreign policy ends, Germany is gradually turning its back on its European partners.

There are very few jobs for them to go to should this project fold.

The considerable increase in transfer of Community structural funds to Member States has not been accompanied by sufficient improvement in the way in which programmes are managed.

It would also be problematic if the Commission were to withdraw aid from agriculture with a view to using the resources for another purpose.

We must hope that, on this occasion, the ends justify the means because there are, unfortunately, a number of things to complain about in the outcome.

We can start by advocating even handed application of Security Council resolutions.

As was apparent from the crime against Iraq, the differences between certain Euro unionist imperialists and their American buddies in the war lie not in the end but in the means.