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Philosophical literature2 quotes
He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532The end justifies the means. — Hermann Busenbaum · 1650Political literature2 quotes
He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other-that is to say, when society is at an end. — James Fitzjames Stephen · 1873Tragedy (play)2 quotes
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare · 1616Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare · 1597Drama1 quote
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. — Jim Casy · 1940Drama (film)1 quote
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. — Jim Casy · 1940Religious literature1 quote
The end justifies the means. — Hermann Busenbaum · 1650