The end justifies the means.

It is the end that justifies the means.

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

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

But good ends do not justify any means whatever.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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'.

It is very important, if we stress that Europe is to be a Europe of values, that we do not go down the road of saying that means justify ends.

To a true hacker, if the Hands On Imperative is restricted, then the ends justify the means to make it unrestricted so that improvements can be made .

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.

Essentially for the same purposes and by similar means

They have beginnings and middles and ends.

Lee (1974) concludes that although Spotswood may have thought that the ends justified the means, he had no legal authority to invade North Carolina, to capture the pirates and to seize and auction their goods.

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

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

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

However, having said that, I must admit that I am suspicious of a certain utilitarian philosophy which tends to affirm that the ends justify the means and that, ultimately, we should just let the operators get on with it and the market will sort it all out.

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.

Both media are also used for criminal and degrading purposes.

The books have strong themes of moral relativism, as the Baudelaires become more confused during the course of the series about the difference between right and wrong, feeling they have done wicked things themselves and struggling with the question of whether the end justifies the means.

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

Most people I ve talked to seem to think that the ends justify the means that if getting the bad guys means detaining some of the good guys as well, then it s worth depriving some people of their basic human right to be free Jamaican blogger Chez Hsia remains unconvinced.

Mr Mugabe is clinging to power and to that end regards all possible legitimate and especially illegitimate means as justified.

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

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

To a certain degree, the end justifies the means when we are dealing with as serious and catastrophic a situation as that in Afghanistan, but the methods used must be open and above board, and I have therefore asked the Commission if it thinks it is in order for EU aid to be used to conceal money laundering and funds from drug smuggling and the trafficking in human beings.

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

The series begins with his working for the Los Angeles based Counter Terrorist Unit, in which he is a highly proficient agent with an ends justify the means approach, regardless of the perceived morality of some of his actions.

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

When are we going to get the detailed proposals we have been promised?

It talks about harmonizing corporate taxation.

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

As is apparent from quite a few of the statements put forward by the Article 29 Group, the heart of the matter is that this data is not merely to be used in the interests of air safety, but for the purposes of what is referred to in the United States as public order, that is to say as a component part of the United States' war against terrorism conducted under the banner of the end justifying the means.

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

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.

The extremists justify killing in the name of God.