Consequentialism Quotes

“Utilitarianism”

“Negative utilitarianism”

“Exitus acta probat.”

“If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?”

“Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.”

“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”

“A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”

“consequentialism”

“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”

“As my poor d'Artagnan used to swear, the importance of the end justifies the meanness of the methods.”

“Wikipedia: Consequentialism”

“He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.”

“To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.”

“... had I taken the line, so often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the result.”

“Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.”

“The Ninth Rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.”

“Consequentialism on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”

“This concept of "national defense" cannot be deemed an end in itself, justifying any exercise of legislative power designed to promote such a goal.”

“Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.”