Quotes About Ethics

Do your best when no one is looking.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

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.

How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?

Wizard is as wizard does.

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.

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.

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

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

My father always used to say 'treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.'

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.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

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.

I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first

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

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?

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

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

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.