Quotes About Filial

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles of compassionate rule, the performance of correct rituals, and the inculcation of filial piety.

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

Godefroid, lost in reflection, stared into his fire. He was absorbed in meditation on this great misery which contained so many different miseries, and yet within which he could see the ineffable joys of the many triumphs of paternal and filial love; they were gems shining in the blackness of the pit.

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgement, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking suspicion that a just Providence, seeing the DeVanes so well endowed with physical beauty, had determined that there was no reason to spoil the work by adding intelligence to the mix.

The experiments showed further that the mean filial regression towards mediocrity was directly proportional to the parental deviation from it.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.

We should not be comparing Hillary Clinton to our mothers, and we certainly don't owe her filial obedience. She is a politician who now must make major promises if she wants our support in any political race.