Alan Keyes Quotes

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

Freedom is not the liberty do anything whatsoever. It is the freedom to do good

The more the power of men and women increases, the greater is their responsibility as individuals and as members of the community.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Act your part with honor.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Life is moral responsibility.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us