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«The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means»
«The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.»
«Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.»
«Only he deserves power who every day justifies it»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold (Statesman) | About: Power | Keywords: deserves, justifies, justifying
«I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.»
«In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.»
«There are large numbers of people who simply don't have the values and vision necessary to be part of an inter-dependent world. They think their differences -- whether religious, political, tribal or ethnic -- are more important than our common humanity. They believe the truth they have justifies their imposition of that truth on other people, even if it takes them to the death of innocents.»
«The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.»
«Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist»