“Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.”

“The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.”

“I am one of those servants butlers usually who respectfully points out when their master is about to do something stupid: "You should probably only burn the document once the blackmail has been c...”

“Theres no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy?”

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”