The men who pile up the heaps of discussion and literature on the ethics of means and ends... are passionately committed to a mystical objectivity where passions are suspect. They assume a nonexistent situation where men dispassionately and with reason draw and devise means and ends as if studying a navigational chart on land.
Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
ethics, judgement, morality