“If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?”

—  Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it bet…" by Orson Scott Card?
Orson Scott Card photo
Orson Scott Card 586
American science fiction novelist 1951

Related quotes

Simon Soloveychik photo

“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”

Simon Soloveychik (1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher

Book 1, part 1, ch. 5
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)

Croesus photo

“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”

Croesus (-596–-546 BC) King of Lydia

Quoted by Herodotus in The Histories, Book I http://books.google.com/books?id=QA4ZZ5gRpnkC&q="In+peace+the+sons+bury+their+fathers+but+in+war+the+fathers+bury+their+sons"&pg=PA45#v=onepage

Herodotus photo

“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”

Herodotus book Histories

Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Book 1, Ch. 87.
The Histories

Solomon photo

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”

Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David

[Proverbs, 10:1, 9]

Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden photo

“Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father.”

Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762–1832) British barrister and judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench

King v. Hunt (1824), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 100.

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
George Herbert photo

“404. One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

Sigmund Freud photo

“The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.”

Sigmund Freud book Moses and Monotheism

Moses and Monotheism (1938)
1930s

Dan Brown photo

“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Tertullian photo

“Therefore "there is one God," the Father, "and without Him there is none else." And when He Himself makes this declaration, He denies not the Son, but says that there is no other God; and the Son is not different from the Father.”

Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian

Adv. Prax. 18 http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM
Against Praxeas https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm
Original: (la) Igitur unus deus pater, et absque eo alius non est: quod ipse inferens non filium negat sed alium deum: ceterum alius a patre filius non est.

Related topics