Quotes About Ethics

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately.

I can fly low atmosphere craft but nobody ever thought it was remotely rational to give murderbots the modules on piloting transports.

lure humans in with promises of room privacy so it could record them in the public spaces.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

Che avrei dovuto fare? Ammazzare tutti gli umani perché quelli che erano a capo della sezione costrutti della compa- gnia erano dei senza cuore? Certo, le persone immaginarie del canale d'intrattenimento mi piacevano molto di più di quelle reali, ma non si poteva avere le une senza le altre.

How can you judge something fairly when you don't know what the rules are? You can't play God, because you aren't God.

acid has no implicit moral direction.

Ironically, Dr. Cameron was a member of the Nuremberg tribunal that heard the case against Nazi war criminals

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Mundus vult decipi. The world winks at dishonesty. The world does not call it dishonesty.

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

Neither the Church of Christ, nor a Christian Commonwealth, ought to tolerate such as prefer private gain to the public weal, or seek it to the hurt of their neighbors.

there is no Jezebel remedy. There's no conscience chemo. No pill for cheating. No therapeutic number of Hail Marys or blow jobs or home-cooked meals or good-wife deeds.

In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you — that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient.

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.