Quotes About Morality

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Meaning well is a poor defense

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.

Zeroth Law...

There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

Actions such as his could come only from a robot, or from a very honorable and decent human being. But you see, you can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

A robot must not hurt a human being, unless he can think of a way to prove it is for the human being's ultimate good after all.

it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you call good.

Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.

the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you call good.

The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that 'right' and 'wrong' are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.

An unjust law," said R. Daneel evenly, "is a contradiction in terms.

Better your own road to hell than another's road to heaven

Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien!

Bir robot, bir insana zarar veremez. Ya da hareketsiz kalarak bir insan?n zarar görmesine neden olamaz. 2. Bir robot, insanlar?n verdikleri emirlere uymak zorundad?r. Ancak bu tür emirler Birinci Yasayla çeliÅŸtiÄŸi zaman durum deÄŸiÅŸir. 3. Bir robot, Birinci ve Ä°kinci Yasalarla çeliÅŸmediÄŸi sürece varl???n? korumak zorundad?r. Robotik El Kitab? 56. Bask?. M.S. 2158

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.

there is something even higher than the justice which you have been filled with. There is a human impulse known as mercy; a human act known as forgiveness." "I am not acquainted with those words, partner Elijah." "I know," muttered Baley. "I know.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable. And if we wish to push our own individual advantage, as we see it, then we will always find reason to believe that some hampering rule is unjust and unreasonable. What starts, then, as a shrewd trick ends in anarchy and disaster, even for the shrewd trickster, since he, too, will not survive the collapse of society.

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

the fact that Jander was Fastolfe's own creation does not give him the right to destroy it.