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Moral duty Quotes

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"There is no moral obligation to accept oppression, humiliation, and exclusion as our lot in life"

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world"

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest"

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought"

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more"

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"

"We—the current generation—have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations"

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know."

"Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity."

"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable"

"We must speak truth no matter how uncomfortable it may be"