Nick Harkaway Quotes

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

We ought to see clearly that the end does justify the means

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

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

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.