Ethical Duties Quotes

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Only God has rights. People have duties.

States are not moral agents.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

With freedom comes responsibility

If you have to pay money to have the right thing done, it is only just and fair to do it.

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Man cannot choose his duties.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.