One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.
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.
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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.
Life is moral responsibility.
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
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.
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions
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.
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.
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