Quotes About Ethics

Tell me, Connor, is this the first time you've been pregnant?' 'What?' 'Just answer the question, yes or no.' 'Yes. I mean no! Shut up! What kind of stupid-ass question is that?' Cam smiles. 'You see? You're damned no matter how you answer. By playing both sides, Proactive Citizenry keeps people focused on choosing between two different kinds of unwinding, making people forget that the real question...' 'Is whether or not someone should be unwound at all.

Perhaps the universe should have deigned to provide such warnings, but scythes were no more supernatural than tax collectors in the grand scheme of things. They showed up, did their unpleasant business, and were gone.

Should evil people be allowed the freedom to be evil, without any safety nets? Is that what Purity was? Was she evil?

B)ut when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

What about today? What choices are being made, what thins are being said by people in high places that might seem so unimportant now, but are laying the groundwork for truly horrible things tomorrow?

Maybe it kills bad scythes,' Munira suggested. 'No,' said Rowan, 'that would be me.

There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today's was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a killer unwound than the kid next door. Vote yes on Initiative 11.

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

Therein lies the paradox of the profession, those who wish to have the job should not have it.....and those who most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

Er hat das […] gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!' ,Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte.' Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

Honey, I'd never take an unwound part for myself. But when they told me the only way to save my boy's life was to basically gut him and replace all his internal organs with someone else's, I didn't even hesitate. So my conscience will ache for the rest of my life, but that's a small price to pay for having my son still on this earth.

I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

Czy ludzie mogli zrobi? co? takiego? Czy mogliby?my walczy? ze sob? o te ratuj?ce ?ycie maszyny, zamieniaj?c je w sterty bezu?ytecznego metalu? Czy mogliby?my tak mocno pragn?? wody, ?e byliby?my gotowi zniszczy? urz?dzenia zdolne j? dla nas wytworzy? - tylko po to, ?eby otrzyma? pierwszy ?yk?

If there wasn't unwinding, there'd be fewer surgeons, and more doctors. If there wasn't unwinding, they'd go back to trying to cure diseases instead of just replacing stuff with someone else's.

Er hat das Proaktive Bürgerforum gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!" "Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte." Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

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

And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.

It is the most difficult thing a person can be asked to do. And knowing that it is for the greater good doesn't make it any easier.

As scythes, it is not what we want that matters—all that matters is what the world needs us to be. As your High Blade, I will hold us to the highest ideals, so that we can be proud of who, and what, we are.

Les gens peuvent se conduire en monstres. Que ce soit dans leurs actes ou dans leur nature, peu importe. Le résultat est le même. — Alyssa

You know the real reason unwinding keeps going strong, Miss Risa Ward? It isn't because of the parts we want for ourselves--it's because of the things we're willing to do to save our children. Imagine that. We're willing to sacrifice the children we don't love for the ones we do. And we call ourselves civilized!

did he want her to join him in his mission of ending unworthy scythes? Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.