Joseph Addison Quotes

My life has told me that I do owe another human being. I owe him part of my life. That's why I'm in politics.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

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

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Duty, recognizing an individual's subordination to community welfare, is as important as rights ...

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.