Quotes About Ethics

He glanced at her: "Sure. You guys must be really close." She was blunt: "Close enough to get your ass fired if you're suggesting that Colles and I are sleeping together." "I wasn't suggesting that," he muttered, rapidly backing off. "Try harder not to suggest it," she said; her tone did everything but smear blood on the windshield. (Page 16)

Virgil thanked him, and as he was leaving, said, "I wouldn't necessarily recommend you invite a cop inside, when you've been smoking dope." "It's medicinal," Gates said. "Besides, does anybody really care anymore?

I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're all fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it.

It's okay if we turned entire cities full of people into nuclear ash, but the idea of monsters having a nibble afterward was just too much.

Here's a hot tip: If you think calling someone a social justice warrior is an insult, you might be a horrible person.

And also because I know if I've figured it out, someone else has too, because there's always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics.

He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.

You've got yourself a cloned body here, Jim.

They didn't mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

An alliance with terrible people." "Really nice people don't usually accrue power.

So we're the monster police, too," I said to Tom. "Correct," he replied. "The only real question is, who are the monsters?

The only real question is, who are the monsters?" "They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It's an actual trope." "I know," Tom said. "What does it say about us that it's relevant every single time they ask it?

But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

I am also aware that ideals are hard to practice, especially when they are new.

When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.

I'm not a good man, Mark," Holloway said. "But I was the right man. And for this, that was enough.

It's funny to me that when people fuck up, they think 'it was just business' is in any way a defense.

ex machina. I

would be an unholy agglomeration of parts, a monstrous creature that would have sent its spiritual godmother Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley far around the bend.

at the moment, the number of fundamentally selfish and self-interested people that human civilization could tolerate, particularly in the social tranche that could actually have an impact on the fate of humanity, had shrunk considerably

generally perfectly okay for most other folks. When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.

Maybe that's what's bothering me," I said. "There's no sense of consequence. I just took a living, thinking thing and hurled it into the side of a building. Doing it didn't bother me at all. The fact that it didn't does bother me, Alan. There ought to be consequences to our actions.

Even if it rewards a murderer and a traitor.

Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.