Quotes of: Moral-duty Keyword

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

William Godwin

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

William Weld

I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed, and when we serve, we believe that it is the s...

Allen West

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Wilhelm Frick

The moral sense in mortals is the duty We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

Lolita

The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.

C.S. Lewis

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful ser...

Lao Tzu

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also c...

Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

It was the mission of the Confederacy, ordinary whites were told, to carry out God’s design for an inferior and dependent race. Slaveholders claimed that owning slaves always entailed a duty and a burden — a duty and burden that defined the moral...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

Marriage and Morals

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generati...

Starship Troopers

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Immanuel Kant

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject of moral disapprobation for that failure, but not for ...

On Liberty

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be, Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties; - 25 -

Goals of Life

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Gouverneur Morris

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.

Michel Templet