ethical responsibilities Quotes

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.

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.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.Some of the promises,it's true,you make to young,before you really have an understanding of what they mean.But once you've made those first promises,other promises are called for.And the thing is you can't deny the new ones without betraying the old ones.The promises get bigger,there are more people to be hurt and disappointed if you don't live up to them.Then, at some point, your called upon to make a promise to a dying man.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

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.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

Man cannot choose his duties.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.