You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means m...
and he justifies the use of immorality to achieve that purpose. “He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation” therefore he claims “the end justifies the means” (Machiavelli). No matter how uncommon the advice he gives you find...
83. Exitus Acta Probat. (The result justifies the deed.) Ends justify the means. 84. Ad astra per aspera. (Through adversity to the stars) Stay tough and reach your dreams. via:Mantelligence 85. scientia ipsa potentia est (Knowledge itself is power) So learn for its own sake. 86. Fab...
Tom Perriello’s ideologies espouse the Machiavellian principle in which “the end justifies the means.” In essence, unethical, morally reprehensible, criminal and contemptuous behaviour is justified in order to, in Perriello’s words, “expand the use of force ...
Or as the founders of the Frankfurt School put it, the end always justifies the means if the end is to advance the agenda. Free Speech Week Video Russia Officially Accuses US of Helping ISIS in Syria, Threatens RetaliationRussia Officially Accuses US of Helping ISIS in Syria, Threatens Retalia...
Machiavelli advises the ruler to become a "great liar and deceiver", and that men are so easy to deceive, that the ruler won't have an issue with lying to others. He justifies this by saying that men are wicked, and never keep their words, therefore the ruler doesn't have to keep ...
And there is a simple reason for it. One act of initiating the use of force justifies another such act. What will both sides in the Canadian trucker controversy take away from this, assuming the truckers get their way? It’s obvious: “if you want something, just organize a big enough ...
that this theory made it possible to rationalize murder, torture, and slavery on the ground that these were only wrongs from a "bourgeois" point of view, and so in fact "revolutionary justice." Thus, the "end justifies the means" really became a way of denying that the means were even ...
However, the deeper question of the Kantian quid juris, what really makes the First Principles true, or what justifies them, was temporarily set aside. At this point, the answer to that issue can be found in one of the most pivotal doctrines of the Friesian tradition: the theory of non-...
Interesting Machiavelli Quote: From Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, chapter 44, which is titled (in part) "It is not well to Threaten without Having the Power to Act": From this we plainly see the folly and imprudence of demanding a thing, and saying beforehand that ...