Ray Bradbury Quotes

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, "Committed to what?" . . . . let us be committed to . . . using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Considering history as a moral exercise, her lessons would be too infrequent if confined to real life. Of those recorded by historians few incidents have been attended with such circumstances as to excite in any high degree this sympathetic emotion of virtue. We are, therefore, wisely framed to be as warmly interested for a fictitious as for a real personage. The spacious field of imagination is thus laid open to our use, and lessons may be formed to illustrate and carry home to the heart every moral rule of life. Thus a lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written.

History does have a moral.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

Do the right things, respect your elders, respect your teachers, continue to work hard, and if you are religious and you have some type of faith... pray.