0 said about a situation in which the final aim is so important that any way of achieving it is acceptable
It is a case, if ever there was one, where the end justifies the means.
We face a potential enemy who, if it pays him, will stop at nothing and for whom the end justifies the means.
It cannot be right to say that the end justifies the means.
In circumstances such as those we face, there will be areas where people will have to look to see whether the end justifies the means.
Often the view is taken that the end justifies the means.
They believe—and they state it quite openly in their materialist philosophy—that the end justifies the means.
No one said that the end justifies the means or that the demands of medical research and science are paramount.
They defined a just war as a war in which the end justifies the means.