Translation of "Der zweck die mittel heiligt" in English

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

You don't feel the end justifies the means.

I'm about to prove to you that the end justifies the means.

Looks like the ends finally justified the means.

I really think the end justifies the means here.

Felicity isn't the only lady who thinks the ends justifies the means.

Once we let the ends justify the means, that's just the first step.

This isn't about making mistakes, Perna. It's about the end justifying the means.

We are taught early on in our lives that the end cannot justify the means.

Telling yourself that any means are justified by the end may be cynical and destructive.

Does the end always justify the means in politics?

So I do not think that our fisheries policy should be based on the Machiavellian idea that the end justifies the means.

We are appealing for the release of a hostage, because we do not agree with the idea that the end justifies the means.

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

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

If we are to reject the proposition that ‘the end justifies the means’, then we must not exploit the situation that violent means have brought about in order to raise the question of our cherished aims.

But a system based exclusively on pragmatism – where ends justify means and values mean nothing – can be neither strong nor stable.

That intervention exemplifies the failure of the "wounded beast" theory of diplomacy, according to which the US could do anything after the terrorist attacks of 2001, with the ends justifying the means.

A man seemingly without a conscience for whom the ends always justify the means.

So, basically, what you're saying, mr. Bauer, is that the ends justify the means, and that you are above the law.

We can look at this metaphorically–also as the ends which 'justify' (or over-take) the means.

That question may not be silenced, even if those who hear it can do no more than lower their gaze in embarrassment and stammer in shame that they sold him, perhaps for the price of a fix of narcotics or for some misguided notion of reasons of state, or even for the false belief that the end justifies the means.

What characterizes its behavior is its creed that "The end justifies the means."

Another former scientologist, affirmed that one could not, when inside, realize what Scientology, which rules that the end justifies the means, really is.

This meant that the end sanctified the means - a principle which Gandhi had always detested.

Judah Maccabee and his descendants believed that the Kingdom of Yahweh could be established by the sword and that the gentiles were untermensch (sub-humans, just as the nazis and extreme Orthodox Jews do) much as the Catholic Church has done in the past and just as Fundamentalist Islam thinks it can today because they believe that the end justifies the means .

Other common factors in their doctrines are: Their stealth and deception or belief in the idea that the end justifies the means.

And since in our times “the end justifies the means“ and the end mostly is defined exclusively by profit, the ancient business codes no longer play any role.