37 Quotes About Moral-responsibility

We are here, in an era of the strong, one that rewards a means to an end mentality, where qualities like empathy and compassion have been downgraded to attributes of weakness and gullibility.

Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.

More police and courts and more prisons and better investigative techniques are fine, but the only way crime is going to go down is if all of us simply stop accepting and tolerating it in our families, our friends, and our associates...Crime is a moral problem. It can only be resolved on a moral level.

In an emerging or ongoing crisis, either you’re the virtuous agent of the solution or the destructive part of the problem.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

For too long the ideal role of the individual in our society—the role the talented young have aspired to almost by convention—has been that of the specialist. It has surely become as plain as it needs to be that what we need most now are not the specialists with their narrowed vision and short-range justifications, but men of sympathy and imagination and free intelligence who can recognize and hold themselves answerable to the complex responsibilities of a man's life in the world.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.