Quotes About Morality

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?

Yes, but I am not human and to expect me to live by your rules or values is unrealistic. For my kind, I am quite altruistic." Tyler Jones/Dhavenbahtek to Thulu and La Fi.

I couldn't just start killing people. That wasn't really my thing.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Could a father not marry his son?

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.