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

— Georges Bernanos

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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. ↗

— Robert Plant

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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

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