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The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

John Dewey
Mean, Desire, Used
John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.321, SIU Press
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.