Moral Responsibility Quotes

Moral Responsibility Quote of the day

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

Life is moral responsibility.

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.