Seanan McGuire Quotes

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.