Quotes About Ethics

Our choices are not easy- nor should they be.

No, it's my rule," he told them. "It's called 'common decency.

Either someone with no conscience at all, or someone with a conscience so deep and sturdy that its center could still hold in the face of light extinguished.

And if there is some eternal world after this one, what fate awaits a taker of lives?

We're not all evil, the man says. Neither are we,, Jeevan responds.

Never lose your humanity," Scythe Faraday had told him, "or you'll be nothing more than a killing machine." He had used the word "killing" rather than "gleaning." Rowan hadn't thought much of it at the time, but now he understood; it stopped being gleaning the moment one became desensitized to the act.

But my pain must not prevent me from doing the right thing.

Then he left without paying the bill, because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.

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

If technology allows us a new way to give, how could it be wrong?

The way Miracolina sees it, if someone would rather blow themselves up than be tithed, well, that's like stealing from the collection plate, isn't it? It's just plain wrong.

It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.

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

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure?

Und wenn ihr Gewissen droht, sie in den Abgrund zu reißen, müsste sie sich dann nicht davon befreien, damit sie überleben kann?

She can't recall whether these were the colors of the pro-life or pro-choice forces, but then, it doesn't really matter. Both sides lost.

Heilige Sch*iße! 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?

We are angels of death," said Scythe Goddard. "It is only fitting that we swoop in from the heavens.

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe—a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't

You shall study history, the great philosophers, the sciences. You will come to understand the nature of life and what it means to be human before you are permanently charged with the taking of life. You will also study all forms of killcraft and become experts.

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.