The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
Death always before dishonor. (Julian)
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
Do the right thing because it is right.
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.
The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.
Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
