Thursday, January 20, 2011

Honour is not in what we do rather how we do it!!

Lettie(one character from the novel) had once said that she found it strange and incongruous to hear me describe criminals, killers and mafiosi as men of honour, The confusion, I think was hers, not mine. She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way- the Geneva convention exists for that very reason- and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble.

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