Quotes About Ethics

It was a morally complex equation.

Moral compromises don't stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be more ethical.

I don't engage in murdering sentients for commerce," I said. "Case closed." "You're programmed not to," she admitted. "That's not ethics. I want to know the real you." There was a pause while she examined her fingernails. "Unless you're afraid of what you'll learn.

Who cleans up the messes selfish people make? Someone has to.

Consciences are the sort of thing that don't seem really desirable to have, unless you're currently using yours.

Her chains rattled. Man, if I turned off my ethics I'd probably murder her just to not have to hear the rattling for a while.

I don't know how you can walk around in a utility fog that could start disassembling your body anything your Governors decide they're done with you.

Farweather just wanted what she wanted. She did what she felt like doing. She didn't care who got hurt, and she didn't feel social responsibilit to mitigate the harm, or seek compromise, or balance her needs against the needs of others.

Everybody seemed to think I would sell out anything, in order to gain a little physical comfort.

Humans have their hearts. Humans have their souls. And look at the abominations they achieve.

Why are people named Lovelace always villains when they appear in questionable literature? The only more certain moral doom lies in being namd Raffles.

any tool can also be a weapon of oppression as easily as it can be an implement of construction.

Society was self-interest given a pretty gloss.

He said he judged people by their characters. I said was that always a quite good way of judging, as people's characters get so different at times, as it depends so much what happens to them.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

Was honour the same as conscience? If not, how did one choose between them? And was the choice, when made, bitter as gall?

Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it.

The war had made everyone a liar, thought Milan bitterly. The war had made it so that one could not distinguish at all between what was true and what false, between victims and perpetrators, or between perpetrators and perpetrators, or victims and victims.

Denial is a normal response to evil.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.