Ethical Neutrality Quotes

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

I do not think Adam [Clayton Powell] was an immoral man or a moral man. I think he was amoral. I think he was almost completely political.

… diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

All propositions are of equal value.

A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don't leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn't have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.

I do not morally judge any character and resist judging anybody in real life, too.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.