“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
“Absolutely nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim.” — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults. — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld Copy Share Image
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of… — Wilhelm Frick Copy Share Image
Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money.… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza is both a moral duty and a strategic imperative. — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it… — Allen West Copy Share Image