As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil…

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Christopher Dawson

1942

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End justifies the means Justifications and rationales

Genre

Historical literature

Time

1942

Person

Christopher Dawson

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Citation

Dawson, Christopher. The Judgment of the Nations. Sheed & Ward, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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