Quotes About Ethics

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.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Zeroth Law...

It is as much my job to prevent harm to mankind as a whole as yours is to prevent harm to man as an individual.

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.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

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.

A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

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

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics," and here they are: 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.

La verdad científica está más allá de toda lealtad y deslealtad.

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.

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

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!

We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted.