Jim Butcher Quotes

If a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that they be no wickedness among you.

Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating.

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

It's a terrible commentary on society, but I'm afraid we have reached the point where some people, by their acts, do give up their right to survive.

If they chased every man or woman out of this town who has shacked up with somebody else or got drunk, there wouldn't be any government left in Washington.

Morality is a social necessity

Our system of morals is a body of imperfect social generalizations expressed in terms of emotion.

Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government.

Pornography is a malady to be diagnosed and an occasion for judgment. It's something one is for or against. And taking sides about pornography is hardly like being against aleatoric music or Pop Art, but quite a bit like being for or against legalized abortion or federal aid to parochial schools.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what's right?

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.