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Means and Ends
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“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menance to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.”
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“... social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”
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“I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.”
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“We may draw good out of evil: we must not do evil, that good may come.”
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“One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good.”
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“A fundamental feminist principle is that the means are the ends; that how we do something is what we get.”
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“The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.”