Quotes About Ethics

it seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.

Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade por omissão, por não fazer nada porque não me importo com ninguém o suficiente pra intervir e tal, com exceção das pessoa que eu conheço bem . Por que não consigo me importar com todo mundo do jeito que me importo com quem eu conheço?

Leave it man. Squirrel's botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark's intae hurtin animals… it's wrong man. Ye cannae love yirsel if ye want tae hurt things like that… ah mean… what hope is thir? The squirrel's likes fuckin lovely. He's daein his ain thing. He's free. That's mibble what Rents cannae stand. The squirrel's free man.

He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?

if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Art is amoral; so is life.

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

All evil is good become cancerous.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.

The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

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.

In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

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

Meaning well is a poor defense