Quotes About Morality

He was developing a sneaking feeling he had found his way onto the wrong side. Again. But it's not always easy to tell when you're picking. Perhaps, as Kahdia once told him, you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

That blood only makes more blood. That settling one score only starts another. That war gives a bastard of a sour taste to any man that's not half-mad, and it only gets worse with time.' She didn't disagree. 'So you know why I'd rather be free of it. Make something grow. Something to be proud of, instead of just breaking. Be . . . a good man, I guess.

Maybe her father hadn't been quite the hero she always reckoned him. Maybe her mother wasn't quite the villain either. Maybe no one's all one or all the other.

Why give them a proper burning?" Rulf caught the lad by the arm. "Because if we beat beggars here, we're no better than beggars. If we beat great men, we're greater still.

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

You killed him all to bits, and robbed everyone who knew him, and cut all the good he might ever do out of the world.

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.

Ain't they people too, though?" muttered Beck, thinking of the face of that Union man lying dead in the shack yesterday. "Just like us?" Whirrun squinted across at him. "More than likely they are. But if you start thinking like that, well… you'll get no one killed at all.

Perhaps this would be a great day, the first of a great era, and he would be proud in after years to have had his part in it. Even if his part had been a dark one. Some men, after all, can only play dark parts. - Shenkt

Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

Taking vengeance... it might not answer no questions. It sure won't make the world a fairer place or the sun shine warmer. But it's better'n not taking it. It's a damn stretch better.

Un hombre que dedica toda su atención a hacer el bien y ninguna a las consecuencias es un hombre peligroso.

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Better to rob the righteous,' muttered Shev as she slipped the oars silently through the rowlocks. 'Evil people tend to be suspicious and vengeful.' Javre

And he wasn't without sympathy for their cause, up to a point. Freedom and justice and so on, who doesn't like that stuff, in principle?

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.

Conscience is that piece of Himself that God puts into everyone,

Debauchery is profitable under any government

Ah yes! I had the chance to leave all this behind. Yet I chose to come back. Change is not a simple thing, eh, Sergeant? I entirely see and understand the pointlessness and waste of it all, yet I do it anyways. Does that make me worse or better than the man who does it thinking himself ennobled by a righteous cause? Or the man who does it for his own profit, without the slightest grain of thought for right or wrong? Or are we all the same?

That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of the river you called home.

Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.