Blaise Pascal Quotes

I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Life is moral responsibility.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

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.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.