Quotes About Ethics

Maybe you should try sticking to one side or the other.' 'Why ever would anyone do that?' Cosca raised his flask, took a sip and smacked his lips in satisfaction. 'It's a war. There is no right side.

You are a king. You have no business talking about the right thing.

Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

Sand dan Glokta, shield to the helpless. Is it ever too late to be . . . a good man?

You treat folk the way you'd want to be treated, and you can't go far wrong. That's what my father told me. Forgot that advice, for a long time, and I done things I can never make up for. Still, it doesn't hurt to try. My experience? You get what you give, in the end.

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

No one gets what they deserve.

History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man's right and another's. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

He was developing a sneaking feeling he had found his way onto the wrong side. Again. But it's not always easy to tell when you're picking. Perhaps, as Kahdia once told him, you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

To regret the methods, you have to win." He couldn't stay on his feet any longer, and he grunted as he took one lurching step and the padded socket squeezed at his stump. "Once you've won ... who cares about the methods?

Why give them a proper burning?" Rulf caught the lad by the arm. "Because if we beat beggars here, we're no better than beggars. If we beat great men, we're greater still.

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.

In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.

Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

Taking vengeance... it might not answer no questions. It sure won't make the world a fairer place or the sun shine warmer. But it's better'n not taking it. It's a damn stretch better.

Un hombre que dedica toda su atención a hacer el bien y ninguna a las consecuencias es un hombre peligroso.

Better to rob the righteous,' muttered Shev as she slipped the oars silently through the rowlocks. 'Evil people tend to be suspicious and vengeful.' Javre

Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world's wrongs.' Orso stared back at him. 'What are we here for, then?' Bayaz neither smiled nor frowned. 'To ensure that we benefit from them.

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.

Conscience is that piece of Himself that God puts into everyone,