A Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
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We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?
Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.
He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
As adults, we have a legal and moral obligation to stand up and speak out for children who are being abused - they cannot speak for themselves.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.
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.
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