Michael Crichton Quotes

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

A first impulse was never a crime.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.