Quotes About Morality

Ä°ki cinsin kat?l?m?n? gerektiren danslar?n iki ortak özelliÄŸi vard?r: Dikkat çekici biçimde masumdurlar ve niyeti kötü olanlar taraf?ndan sevilirler.

May it please your honour, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by comparison.

there are four kinds of homicide felonious excusable justifiable and praise worthy

Wall street, n. a symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke. That wall street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in heaven

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.

I fed on one of the true monsters—one of the many 'witch hunters' who interrogated and jailed the accused, seeking guilt where there was none. How humans can do such things to their fellows is beyond me. They torture, main and kill their own kind, saying it is God's will.

severed heads,' Cosca was explaining, 'never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic, sensibility,They can make a point a great deal more eloquently then those still attached.

War is no place for good men.

That was an age of great men doing what was right...This is an age of little men doing what they must.

Anyway, it seems to me a man can do an awful lot of evil in no time at all. Swing of a blade is all it takes. Doing good needs time. And all manner of complicated efforts. Most men don't have the patience for it. 'Specially not these days.

Does the devil know he is a devil?

You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .

If you're a good man, and you try to think about what the right thing is every day of your life, and you build things to be proud of so bastards can come and burn them in a moment, and you make sure and say thank you kindly each time they kick the guts out of you, do you think when you die, and they stick you in the mud, you turn into gold?' 'What?' 'Or do you turn to fucking shit like the rest of us?

Who says there even is a real Shenkt? People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth … is a hard sell.

That was the age of great men, doing what was right.

We all got our reasons...good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.

Maybe you should try sticking to one side or the other.' 'Why ever would anyone do that?' Cosca raised his flask, took a sip and smacked his lips in satisfaction. 'It's a war. There is no right side.

Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

Sand dan Glokta, shield to the helpless. Is it ever too late to be . . . a good man?

Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene.

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man's right and another's. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.