Jim Butcher Quotes

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.