Charlie Hunnam Quotes

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

We all have the duty to do good.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

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

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

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.

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

It's an important lesson Dad instilled in me, the idea that we have the freedom to serve, and that the choice to serve can define the type of life you live.

The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.