Quotes About Ethics

Quién pagaría una buena cantidad por una virginidad que no puede violar más tarde, aunque solo fuera para asegurarse de que era auténtica?

And then, life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.

Y son los buenos los que no pueden rechazar la cuenta cuando se la presentan. Por la sencilla razón de que les pueden obligar a pagarla

Todo hombre tiene el privilegio de destruirse a sí mismo siempre que no haga daño a nadie, siempre que viva para sí mismo y de sí mismo

Because there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat and stored the fruit of his sweat into.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail.

It beats all how some folks think that making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.

Pero no comprende que quizá un hombre pueda hacer algo únicamente porque sabe que está bien, porque la armonía de las cosas exige que se haga?.

do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.

Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.

are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

What do you think we ought to do? she asked. Do? Put his sorry ass away. Tell the law and let them open the graves themselves. Put him away forever in some crazyhouse. They'd have to. You think they would? I know they would. What would you do with him? There's supposed to be respect for the dead. It's the way we evolved or something. It's genetic. This man here…he wouldn't cull anything. He'd do anything.

A nation," he heard himself say, "consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.

The charges have to do with conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence.

You feel like you have emotions, to me. Where's the line between modeling them and having them, though? But I know I can't just make them go away.

A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The

But, Hubertus, Cayce offers, what if Dorothea is... Yes? He leans forward, palms flat on the table. A vicious lying cunt? Bigend giggles, a deeply alarming sound. Well, he says, we are in the business of advertising, after all. He smiles.

For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible. And what would you be paid with? What would your price be, for aiding this thing to free itself and grow?

Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish, and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. Get all the functions and features you want, without that clunky-junky twentieth-century hardware thing.

Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.' Case

nation," he heard himself say, "consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.