(235 quotes found)
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“If the end does not justify the means - what can?”
Edward Abbey
“Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.”
Daniel S. Greenberg
“HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
Leon Trotsky
“An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.”
Peter Singer
“Only he deserves power who every day justifies it”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Or at least the ends justify being really mean!”
Frank Miller
“The ends justify the means”
Proverb