Book of Genesis Quotes

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

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

We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.

It takes two men to make one brother.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe myself.

There is within man an ethical feeling ... telling us that in our economic life as well as elsewhere we must seek to promote the welfare of our neighbor and brother.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

It is not good nor honorable for a Confederate Lord [legislative representative] to allow his people whom he has called to go hungry.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Diety.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

I refused to let my brother down, because he sacrificed for me. And I always told him, 'As long as one of us playing football, we both playing football.'

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.