If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.” — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
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 hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. — Eliza Lynn Linton 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
“The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“You don’t remember it, but when you were a baby… someone protected and helped you, too. The strong protect the weak. Then… — Koyoharu Gotouge Copy Share Image
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs 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 socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara 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
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld Copy Share Image
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
