What You Are in the Dark/Quotes

"Good deed's like pissing yourself in dark pants. Warm feeling, but no one notices."

- Jacob, Mass Effect 2

"Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."

- J .C. Watts

"History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."

- Lord John Whorfin

"The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids."

- Aristotle

"Someone who is nice to you but rude to their waiter is not a nice person."

- Proverb

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

- Dale Carnegie

""How do you know the Chosen Ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions. Not for glory, not for fame.... For one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see.""

- Sebastian, Babylon 5

"Now listen, all of you, for all we know that's a brand new life-form over there, and if it's come inside to discover us, then what's it found? This little bunch of humans. What do you amount to? Murder? 'Cause this is where you decide, you decide who you ARE. Could you actually murder her? Or are you better than that?"

- The Doctor, Doctor Who, "Midnight"

"Principles only matter if you stick to them when it's inconvenient."

- Sen. Laine Billings Hanson, The Contender

"Billis: Sir, with regret, I'm going to have to lower my gun. Droxil: Why? Billis: She is a crying, unarmed, female civilian. I'm thinking of the visual. Droxil: Nobody's looking! Billis: Doesn't mean there's no visual."

- Doctor Who, "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"