"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."

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"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

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"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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Dan Groat, American Author

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"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

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"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."

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"Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons."

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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

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"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

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"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."

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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."

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"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms."

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"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."

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"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."

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"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

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"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."

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"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."

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"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."

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