Moral Responsibility Quotes

"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism." "Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can s" "A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying" "To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage." "We must globally warm our hearts and change the climate of our souls, and realize that we need each other." "Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?" "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant." "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights That is the way of a whole human being" "There comes a time when silence is betrayal." "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict." "Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices." "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis" "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "There is no greater sin than that of willful ignorance" "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality" "It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal." "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle" "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"