Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

It was an act of both conscience and cowardice.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs." "There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf." "That's what they say when they kill our children.

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

People ask me if I would shoot and kill people, and I don't think I would.

I don't know whether to admit it or not. You think I should tell them, Snerdley? Okay. Folks, some good friends of mine who live here in Palm Beach bought a Smart Car... and there's a picture of me in it.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?