Quotes About Ethics

One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have - people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

Funny how morality, which always seems so black and white can be influenced so completely by what you were raised to believe.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain, Kele had said. I mean, you don't know where it's been.

But there's a road to hell for every good intention.

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of the darkness and light all our lives.

The world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.

People like you because you've got integrity. Even when you're being an ass.

unwinding is, by law, painless.

Thou shalt kill.

You've hit the nail on the head, Anastasia. That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have—people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. It watched the world from millions of eyes, listened from millions of ears. I either acted, or chose not to act on, the countless things it perceived.

they were called scythes rather than reapers, because they were not the ones who killed; they were merely the tool that society used to bring fair-handed death to the world.

And, like the Thunderhead, we love humanity. But we know not to coddle it. Humanity must accept the consequences of its own actions. We cannot - should not - protect it from itself.

I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.

As we walk, I collect business cards for escort services from sleazy guys handing them out to anyone who will take them. Not that I intend to call the numbers on the cards, but it's something to collect.

Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened . . . but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead. It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

when it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance.

In a perfect world, everything would either be black or white, right or wrong and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

The ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. But we stole it. Now we have a monopoly on death. We are its sole distributor.