Quotes About Ethics

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

No Queen has clean hands.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.

Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters … and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.

El hombre que dicta la sentencia debe blandir la espada. Si le vas a quitar la vida a un hombre, tienes un deber para con él, y es mirarlo a los ojos y escuchar sus últimas palabras. Si no soportas eso, quizá es que ese hombre no merece morir".

Is he blind, or merely stupid?" "He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing.

It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword.

The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

Better a beggar than a thief.

Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.

Good and evil are silly lies, nonsense put forth to plague honest sensible men.

All kings must be butchers or meat.

Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

A grey man," she said. "Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?" "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.

He is fair of face and foul of heart.

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.