Alex Gibney Quotes

The ends do not always justify the means

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

The end must justify the means.

We ought to see clearly that the end does justify the means

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

No one may do evil that good may come.

It seems that the world considers whoever gets benefit is the virtuous one

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.