7 Graham Greene Quotes on Ethics

Graham Greene quotes on ethics

9. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

11. Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

46. The hurt is in the act of possession; we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad my wife had struck out at me again - I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

48. Sooner or later...one has to take sides - if one is to remain human.

49. What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist, in terms of quantity, and I had betrayed my own principles; I had become as engage as Pyle, and it seemed to me that no decision would ever be simple again.

52. I have often noticed that a bribe...has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

67. If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one.