Quotes About Ethics

Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

All men are sinners.

We're fortunate my brother Stannis is not with us. Remember that time he proposed to outlaw brothels?

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question? Without question? No. The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. I'd ask how much.

Salt a slug and shame a hero.

Evil thoughts come free

Paying good coin to bad men.

Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes … we have plenty, as do you.

Am I still a thief if I put it all back and no one ever knows?

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.

My father once told me that some men are not worth having," Jon finished. "A bannerman who is brutal or unjust dishonors his liege lord as well as himself.

we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...

Are you blind or bought?

Family, Duty, Honor,

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good.

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.

Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.

Honor," she said. "The point is honor.

If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words.

Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.

The king, the priest, the rich man—who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers.