Quotes About Ethics

Creo que los virus informáticos deberían ser considerados como vida. Quizás dice algo sobre la naturaleza humana que la única forma de vida que hemos sido capaces de crear hasta ahora sea puramente destructiva.

Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.

We are creating gods, and we may be their first victims.

It can be foolish as all get-out, yes, ma'am. It doesn't make much sense. But I was just taught to hurt no man except the man who hurt me and mine. I have no other star to steer by. That and to do my duty as I understand it. If I followed those two rules, I'd be okay.

Apparently it's okay for eagles to hunt. But it's not okay for people to enjoy it.

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather? He stared at me, baffled. Why the fuck would you do that?

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.

He had live long enough to know there was a little scumbag in everyone, but it didn't help much when you had to take out the trash.

Winnie, but I don't believe in sin." He smiled. It was a benevolent smile. Also unpleasant: sheep lips, wolf teeth. "That's fine. But sin believes in you.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.

If we have free will, then you have to invite evil in.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die—I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created—but I believe there has to be something.