Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

The lesser evil is also evil.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

You have to do something bad to do something good.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.