“Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.”

— Terry Pratchett , book Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms

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English author 1948–2015

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather

“Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Churchill ended his December 8, 1941 letter to the Japanese Ambassador, declaring that a state of war now existed between the United Kingdom and Japan, with the courtly flourish "I have the honour to be, with high consideration, Sir, Your obedient servant".
The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance (1950) Chapter 32 (Pearl Harbor).
Post-war years (1945–1955)

“[On boxing] [For] The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

Interview in Windy City Pride (4 February 2011) http://www.citysbest.com/chicago/news/2011/02/04/jennifer-beals-talks-chicago-code-windy-city-pride.

“I would appreciate it if just this once you would make the effort to curb your negativism.”
“I have to say what I think. That’s what I’m being paid for, after all.”

Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide

“A very common delusion.”
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 1, “The Leviathan in Flight” (p. 10)

“The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“I would say this boils down to a war between the haves and the have-nots. The haves are the people that are getting all the funding. They're getting millions and millions of dollars of funding. The skeptics, we get scraps, we do things on our own. I funded most of the project on my own. And so who should you trust? People that are being paid for an opinion, paid for an output, versus someone who is not being paid for an output, and I think that's the question.”

Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist

Tom Minchin. Anthony Watts interviewed http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2010/06/anthony-watts-interviewed/, Quadrant magazine, June 30, 2010.
2010

“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.”

Terry Pratchett book Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

“God killed me, and only after He made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.”

Osamu Dazai book The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

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