Isaac Marion Quotes

Life is moral responsibility.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

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.

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

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

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

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

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.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

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

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.