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the end justifies the means
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1. Hermann Busenbaum
Cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt licita.The end justifies the means.
Hermann Busenbaum 1600-68: Medulla Theologiae Moralis (1650); literally 'When the end is allowed, the means also are allowed'



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