It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged. - Mark Clifton

In either event he could only adhere to the letter of the law, but then for every yea in the law there was a nay, and it always boiled down to simple expediency. Like a psychiatric diagnosis, it could always be juggled around to fit anything you chose.

People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.

To say that man has already achieved the ultimate and absolute truth is like a tribal taboo which says that a given river may never be crossed because the witch doctor proves beyond all reason that there is only chaos beyond.
The most puzzling of all contradictory concepts given me is the human will to set up such arbitrary limits to his comprehension.