Niccolo Machiavelli's 'Ends Justifying The Mean'

If one uses immoral ways to reach a goal, that goal becomes stigmatized by the ways used to reach it. Politician and philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli is known for coining the phrase, “Ends justifying the means” in his book The Prince. This quote leaves us with the question, “is it worth it to reach a goal no matter what you have to do to get there?” Machiavelli believed that wrong deeds can be justified simply by having a good purpose for those actions but his theory is flawed, because no matter the end goal one should not try to reach it through evil actions.
People are only to be excused if the means used to reach a certain objective are just as good as the outcome. There are many other ways to reach a goal through moral and pure actions. Greek Philosopher, Aristotle believed “Doing anything well requires virtue or excellence, and therefore living well
For Aristotle the process of being a saintly person(the means) are what defends the end as to what the moral person would do(the ends) so, for Aristotle “the ends don't justify the means, but instead the means justify