Moral Responsibility Quotes - Page 2

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

  Don Cheadle

  Responsibility, Firsts, Moral

  "Climate Champions speak out: Don Cheadle on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Khaled Mashal

  Responsibility, People, Community

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• Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, Facts, Moral

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• The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.

  Bodo Balsys

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Animal

  Bodo Balsys (2006). “Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness”, Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Limited

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

  Raymond Smullyan

  Responsibility, Moral, Sin

  Jason Rosenhouse, Raymond M. Smullyan (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Military, Responsibility

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.

  Eugene Rivers

  Responsibility, Uganda, People

  "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.

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• Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

  Todd Young

  Responsibility, Compassion, Names

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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

  Paul Virilio

  War, Responsibility, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Responsibility, Bourgeoisie, Behaviour

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.81, Westminster John Knox Press

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

  Sherman Alexie

  Responsibility, Moral, Problem

  "Born again, again". Interview with Dale Bridges for Boulder Weekly, dalebridges.org. 2007.

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• To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mother, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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• Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

  Todd Young

  Responsibility, Impact, Addresses

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• There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Responsibility, Moral

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• Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help other countries in need. Foreign aid is essential to protecting U.S. interests around the world, and it is also a moral responsibility of the wealthiest, most powerful nation.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Powerful, Responsibility

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• The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift.

  Frederick Victor Grey Wymark

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Use

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• Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.

  William Stringfellow

  Memories, Blessed, Taken

  William Stringfellow (2005). “A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Responsibility, Moral

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during the last 900 years. It is impossible to explain this fact in purely economic terms by a materialistic interpretation of history. The principle of change has been a spiritual one and the progress of Western civilisation is intimately related to the dynamic ethos of Western Christianity, which has gradually made Western man conscious of his moral responsibility and his duty to change the world.

  Christopher Dawson

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Men

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• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Believe, School

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• ... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Responsibility, Rude, Joy

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• 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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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