Quotes About Ethics

Debauchery is profitable under any government

La principal lealtad de un hombre es la que tiene para consigo mismo

Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.

Szörnyen vékony a határvonal aközött, ha valakit vezérként emelnek a magasba, meg aközött, ha akasztott emberként kerül a többiek fölé.

Every hero is someone's villain

People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

Once you set your mind on killing, it is hard to choose the number of the dead.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.

Seemed being a better man might be harder work than he'd thought.

Once the killing starts, it rarely sticks to those who deserve it

What use are straight answers in a crooked world?

a man who doesn't keep his word isn't much of a man at all.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.' He shook his head. 'But some men think it's the best thing in the world.

Someone who'd starved in the camps, who'd lied her way into the hearts and beds of good people, who'd tricked and tortured to betray a cause she halfway believed in for the sake of one she didn't at all, might've felt a little bitter at seeing all this money wasted.

Trouble with the good fight, I find… once

Codes of honour, I fear, aren't worth the paper they're not written on.

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

Folk she'd known to be big on religion had tended to use it as an excuse for doing wrong rather'n a reason not to.

But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.

I did a good thing, and so, of course, there is a price to be paid.

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero.

A good liar lies as little as possible.

Trouble with the good fight, I find... once the fight starts, the good stops.

Conscience is an excuse not to do what needs doing.