… the good guy was the good guy because he didn’t want anyone to see him being bad. He did not want to be ashamed. He did not want to be the darkness. (Sn)
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‘… it’s quite easy for people to be jolly decent when they can afford to hire thoroughly un-decent people …’ (Sn)
…Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’ … (Sn)
‘… there’s always an easy way, and then again, there’s always the hard way. Currently, this is the easy way, but the hard way is also quite easy, in a manner of speaking.’ (Sn)
‘… the worst thing you can do is nothing.’ (Sn)
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away. (Sn)
‘Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.’ (Sn)
‘… some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they’re doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.’ (Sn)
'Have you boys got no shame?'
Rob Anybody matched him grin for grin. 'I couldnae say,' he replied, but if we have, it probably belonged tae somebody else.' (ISWM) '… there are times when promises should be kept and times when promises should be broken, and it takes a Feegle to know the difference.' (ISWM)
'Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference. And sometimes a copper too, if you have the right kind of copper. Clever people know this. Stupid people don't. And the trouble is, stupid people can be oh so clever.' (ISWM)
'And though nobody's saying it, we're locked in here for our protection. You see, everyone else is locked out, and although they sometimes act dumb, policemen can't help being clever. They know that people need witches, they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right.' (ISWM)
'I am not brazen and I don't huss!' (ISWM)
'… the more best you're capable of the more you should do.' (UA)
There things that were important and things that weren't, and times when you knew the difference. (UA)
'… we are part of the scheme of things. Light and dark. Night and day. Sweet and sour. Good and evil (within acceptable college statutes). It just helps if we can have sensible and reliable people on both side …' (UA)
Glenda, lurking among the serving girls, was taken aback and affronted at the same time, which was a bit of a squeeze … (UA)
'And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.' (UA)
'… I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.' (UA)
'Interestingly, he does want to know if we have an ethics committee,' said Stibbons.
'Since we don't have any, I don't think we need one,' said Ridcully. (CCODD) The man had an uncanny ability to look inside your head, and leave it feeling grubby. (N)
'How can he rise up every morning and decide to be him?' (N)
Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points. (P)
... you might end up wondering what the truth really was, or whether there were lots of different kinds of truth. (MR)
'Too many lies and there’s no truth to go back to.' (MR)
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