Quotes About Ethics

Identifying evolutionary origins of nefarious behavior in no way justifies or excuses it.

in this great land, found his crouched, finger-pointing yentism merely the performance of a deeper truth and moral imperative, reducible to "stop working, tax the productive until they stop working, and let the country go to hell.

Cuál es la utilidad de ser bueno con un pobre? Preguntó Cicerón.

El hombre nunca hace el mal tan completa y alegremente como cuando lo hace por convicción religiosa. Dijo Pascal.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.

The Bible says that it's all right to cast the first stone if someone dead is telling you to do it

Half the people I know have dead animals in their freezers: reptiles, birds, mammals. Is that normal?

Nothing irritated her more than these high-and-mighty vegetarians who ate meat sometimes and then decided that it didn't really count.

The rules were just different back then, especially in regard to corporal punishment. Not only could you hit your own children, but you could also hit other people's.

Not giving is no different than taking.

Art is the essential medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

David Sosnowski

Before you do something questionable," Roger continued, as he had countless times before, "ask yourself, 'What if everybody did what I'm about to do?

Buzz" was Buzz and was conscious. Whether it had happened as a result of Cassi providing it an inner voice, the accumulation of qubits, or reverse engineering its way to a "theory of mind" with help from her human caricature of a face, Pandora no longer had any doubts about their AI having passed the Turing test.

Turns out, utilitarianism's way too simplistic

El mundo de los humanos ha dejado de ser humano... Quizá se ha abusado tanto de los buenos sentimientos que se han acabado, como pasó con el carbón.

Just do the right thing." The simplicity is so removed from my own generation of helicopter parents.

In America Bibles and slaveholders go hand in hand. The church and the slave prison stand together, and while you hear the chanting of psalms in one, you hear the clanking of chains in the other. The man who wields the cowhide during the week, fills the pulpit on Sunday. . . . The man who whipped me in the week used to . . . show me the way of life on the Sabbath

It was only in stupid stories written by idiots that good triumphed unscathed and only the evil died. She'd known that, but where did it say her people must always be the ones to pay for victory? Her

liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

Causes can be tricky masters," Harrington sighed. "It's really difficult to avoid checking your scruples at the door when you buy into one of them.

mercy and justice are deadlier than any rifle or bayonet.

Nothing else in this world can damn and destroy souls as effectively as our need to inflict vengeance and call it justice.