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"We're driven by some sort of biological determinism, but we have moral agency, do we not?"
"If we have the ability to choose a less harmful way of living, it becomes a moral obligation to do so."
"When you're doing good work, you have a moral obligation to put in a firm bit of effort."
"Happiness is a moral obligation because of how you affect other people."
"In cases of genocide, you can't just be neutral. You can't say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed... but maybe he was upset because he argued with his wife.' No, there was no equality, and we had to tell the truth."
"Liberty did not mean the freedom to do whatever you wanted, it meant the freedom to do what you should do."
"As my dad used to say, if nobody in the room is doing the right thing, that means it's your job."
"If we want to say that a person should be held morally responsible for the decisions made by an artificial intelligence that they've created, in my view, this is just like saying a person should be morally responsible for the decisions made by their own children."
"The future of this society depends on good people stepping up."
"We have a moral responsibility to act and act boldly."
"An algorithm has moral weights. Just think about the algorithm that tells a car whether it should swerve to the right...there's moral weight to even the most routine program."
"The earth is the intersection between heaven and hell, and how much it's like heaven is up to us."
"If you're a believer and you believe the teaching of scripture, there's a moral requirement for you as a follower of Jesus to live up to what your conscience says."
"You have this opportunity to perform good, to do good. While you're here, my young friend, there is no accountability."
"I think it would be both morally and ethically a good idea for the United States to provide more support."
"The more we learn about ourselves, the more it will look like there's no deep agency, no deep responsibility."
"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
"I may fail, but I at least want my children to say he tried."
"We have a moral responsibility to stand up and fight on behalf of life."
"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"You know all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"This is a moral issue, my friends. We have to take the responsibility of making sure that the planet we leave our children and grandchildren is a planet that is healthy and habitable."
"There are fates far worse than death...humanity is depending on everybody who has a position from which to see what is taking place, to grapple with what it might mean, to describe it so that the public understands where their interests are."
"You have a moral duty to defend yourself, my friend."
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Make yourself generous and abide by the dictates of your conscience; do enough signal good so that your great wealth rests lightly on your shoulders."
"The question of moral responsibility lies in your ability to act otherwise."
"They know they have a moral obligation to help, or at least they feel a moral obligation to help."
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them do nothing."
"We have a moral obligation to protect the planet."
"If you don't try and save the people while you have the chance, it'll haunt you forever."
"At some point, we have to do what's right...especially for them, because they really are putting everything on the line for us."
"You could help direct the world on its careening trajectory a bit more toward heaven and a bit more away from hell."
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
"To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us."
"We all know that we have natural obligations to our parents, to our grandparents, to our communities, to our country, and to our God."
"It's a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful."
"We are morally required to engage in talking about this."
"How do you not come out and immediately condemn this? Not three days later, but immediately condemn this language."
"Moral responsibility is tied to a capacity to understand the consequences of one's actions."
"Sometimes we have to be willing to speak up to stand up when we see something that is not fair and not just."
"Justice is giving answers by admitting what you did and that it is wrong."
"If you see an evil, change it with your hand. And if you can't, at least with your tongue. And if you can't do that, at least feel bad in your heart. At least feel bad in your heart."
"It's not enough to say 'I'm not a racist,' we must be anti-racism because there's no neutrality in this fight."
"With great power comes great responsibility." - Stan Lee
"I said when you were hungry you fed me, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was naked you clothed me, when I was in prison, you came and visited me."
"We have a moral responsibility to act and act boldly and to do that yes it is going to be expensive."
"Bystanders who sit there and do nothing are just as bad as the bully."
"The world exists as it does not because a few people are violent, but because too many people are silent."
"There's a difference between blame and responsibility."
"Whatever you think nonetheless, those who provoked it have to take some responsibility for it."
"We have the ability to show more compassion."
"The only thing that lets bad people do bad things, evil prevails when good men do nothing."
"The United States has a moral responsibility to act."
"All it takes is for good people to do something."
"All that is required for evil to Triumph is that good men do nothing. Amen. Correct. Good persons do not understand good people can do bad things if they're in bad systems."
"There's an intense moralizing that goes with it because there's nothing more important than taking care of an infant. Fair enough, there's no job more admirable than being a caretaker of an infant."
"He made it his mission to save as many innocent lives as he could since he felt that he would never be able to live with himself if he ever gave up."
"All that evil needs to propagate is for good men to do nothing."
"Wouldn't it be unethical to not do something if you knew it could help them?"
"Our ideals and compassion must be matched by our actions."
"I really try to do the right thing. I try to bring hope to the world. I try to shine a light on evil [__] that is happening on this planet."
"It's a genuine sacrifice he's making, everything he has, he's giving to right the wrongs that he's been complicit in."
"If religious Americans truly want their faith to be a force for good, they must take their religion back from those who have turned it into a weapon of evil."
"The only thing necessary for the Triumph of evil was for good people to do nothing."
"With great power must come great responsibility."
"Commanding what is good and forbidding what is evil is essential to prevent evil from becoming predominant in society."
"The loss of his son and the forever reminder that he's responsible can never be explained or forgotten."
"The only thing necessary for falsehood or evil to triumph is for good men and women to remain silent."
"Whenever you see something and you don't say something, you are complicit."
"How about doing the right thing when you have the power to do it?"
"Each and every one of us upon entering this life is granted the opportunity to make choices, and these choices bear Eternal consequences."
"Having the legal freedom to say something is one thing that's important. The question of whether you should use that freedom or not is another question."
"We each hold so much power to influence for good or for bad."
"For evil to succeed, all it needs is for good men to do nothing." - Martin Luther King
"We all have a part to play in the way that we treat other human beings."
"The evilness of the car depends on the evilness of the driver and the objectives and motives of that guy."
"And then when the truth is known to the entire world, we are going to have extreme accountability. Because let's be clear, accountability is God's job."
"You have an obligation... stand up for what's right."
"Once you know, you can't look away, and you can never again say you did not know." - William Wilberforce
"Someone has to fight. Good men and women have to fight at times."
"There's still an opportunity for us to do the right thing."
"Admit that they are at fault. That they did something wrong. They take responsibility and make right by undoing a wrong or by doing something to change for the better in the future."
"The only necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Man will be accountable to God at the judgment. Exam time."
"Sylvanas is now free to accept responsibility for and face judgment for the terrible crimes she has committed."
"If you have the ability to help than you should."
"The Golden Rule puts you in the position of being the ultimate moral arbiter."
"The moral weight of the abortion question itself."
"If we lose to identify with the suffering of any creature, then we haven't just betrayed our faith but we've also failed the test of our time."
"The people that were silent and didn't take action, they also were murderers in some way because they didn't do anything."
"If you can't argue for the rights of your opponents, then ultimately when it comes to you having your rights threatened, there'll be no one to argue for you."
"And if people can't grasp the fact that freedom comes with a sense of moral obligation and responsibility, then you really don't deserve to be free, to be frank."
"I think that journalism has the power to change hearts and minds real investigative reporting to be the what has been called the custodians of conscience."
"The intelligent virus, we deserve a president who cares whether his fellow Americans live or die."
"If we don't pray for the pope and who will and that's going to fall on us and we're going to be reminded on our judgment day."
"I would love to give a costume design Oscar at a Beauty and the Beast"
"We believe that people who take a position of moral superiority over others are doubly responsible for holding themselves to a higher standard, else they risk losing their credibility and wasting their potential to do some actual good."
"Not speaking up is basically you're complicit. You're supporting it."
"All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing."
"In keeping silent about evil... we are implanting it."
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"It's hard not to do good in the world... If you can save a life for as little as $20 or $50... I think that would definitely go a long way in making the world... a little bit of a better place."
"It's our responsibility to elevate them out of hell on earth and create heaven on earth."
"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
"Using your brain and your conscience it's not the kind of job that requires a resume or professional references that's something you're supposed to be doing all the time especially when it comes to this particular issue."
"The dynamic of heels and baby faces have been thrown away in recent years but Reigns feels like a true mega heel and possesses an aura around him which no one else in the company has."
"The problem is not that evil exists, it's that good men do nothing."
"Knowing better leaves us no excuse for not doing better."
"I just don't understand why there's no moral responsibility here."
"If I don't speak the truth and try and help other people, I would not feel right."
"I think these platforms have a moral responsibility to filter out content like that... without fearing increased legal liability."
"Here's my question: If it's within our power to prevent mass extinction, are we morally obligated to intervene?"
"All that's needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
"In a world without any form of institutionalized justice, the only justice you can bring is that justice you can deliver."
"They write a check, don't they? That's cashable at any time up to and including the value of their own lives. And if we don't respect that, then who are we as a society?"
"What Pope Francis calls the moral obligation: get vaccinated."
"I completely believe her, and here's why: you can't even get consent from a passed out drunk person."
"Avoiding masks is not in the Bible, but taking care of others is."
"Step up. What if it was your brother? What if it was your son? You would want somebody to step up."
"What if it was your brother? What if it was your son? You would want somebody to step up."
"Making less people kill themselves is probably the right thing to do."
"This is probably some of the most important work we're doing... morally exposing this and hopefully, in the end, stopping it."
"We have to reckon with the fact that we did that as a nation, the United States of America. We let that happen. Admit that."
"It's about decency. It's about there are consequences to our actions and you either put a little bit of good into the world or a little bit of bad and you're accountable."
"The important thing is to do the right thing rather than the thing that will make you in the short term feel better but harm the cause in the long run."
"There's more than one way to murder, by the usage of your tongue."
"If you're open carrying a gun... you have a moral obligation to not let people disarm you."
"Is the fact that we can access that information, does that mean that we have the moral imperative to start asking ourselves questions like is it time for me to make that change?"
"Intelligence without a moral compass is a liability, it's not an asset."
"With great power comes great responsibility, without them actually saying it."
"By reducing the harm that we're causing, we're acknowledging straight away the reduction of harm is the morally preferable thing to do."
"You don't actually have to commit a crime to participate in or benefit from rape culture."
"We have a moral obligation to combat climate change."
"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself, not to stand right now is to stand."
"I believe that I, as well as everyone else, will be accountable to Him."
"The mere fact that people have the audacity to speak in public discourse about sexualizing children is a complete abnegation of the concept that children are deemed morally incapable of giving consent."
"The age of accountability is not a chronological measurement, it is a reckoning of spiritual understanding."
"Living righteously is not a luxury; it's a responsibility."
"Evil doesn't stop itself, and passive men who allow it are complicit."
"Personal consequences... when good guys don't punish bad people, people just keep doing it."
"If you heal one life, it's as if you've saved the entire world."
"I think that we can stand for Ukraine, we can say we do have a moral authority to intervene here while also recognizing that the U.S. foreign policy hasn't been perfected, we've made mistakes as well."
"The oppressor still has obligations to the oppressed."
"We need to stick and preach a sound doctrine to this world."
"The only thing moral about a man doing the right thing is making sure his family is safe."
"At the end of the day, we all have the moral responsibility to as much as possible nurture each other's natures."
"Evil doesn't operate in a vacuum. Evil needs oxygen, evil needs people to support it because when you starve the oxygen from evil, evil goes away."
"When good people stop combating the evil, that's when evil wins."
"Decisions according to our own moral compass, we have to live with those decisions or die by them."
"If you have the ability, you have the responsibility; if you can, then you must."
"What the 'he shouldn't have been there' folks are saying is that your moral obligation is to sit there and take it."
"Our moral responsibility to Ukrainians and to our own people and of course the economic imperatives make that essential."
"If God exists and God is good and powerful, he will not punish someone for using the brain that he gave them."
"It feels like we're making decisions... it's the foundation of our systems of moral responsibility."
"The blood of so many more generations will be on my hands because you've shown us the price people are willing to pay for a good show."
"All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good people to remain silent."
"You have a moral obligation to get vaccinated because if you don't you're putting other people in harm's way."
"Spider-Man's Decision: With great power comes great responsibility."
"The argument that statistically one out of 100,000 people will be unhinged so you bear no responsibility on the other 99,999 is incredibly weak."
"With great power, there must also always be great responsibility."
"As long as the thing that you're doing has the potential to benefit at least one person, then there's almost a moral obligation on you to put it out there."
"It's a moral policy to follow and enforce the law."
"If I don't tell people the totality of the truth then you're you're still going to be depraved you're still going to U be in this circle of Despair and this not helping anyone."
"You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know of its existence."
"My silence at such a time would be criminal."
"Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world."
"In this world where the only way to survive is to be the strongest, having someone like Ken fight for those that cannot fight means more to the world than his own need to rescue yuria."
"The root cause of the evil in America today is an apathetic church."
"We're soldiers. Soldiers don't go to hell. We follow codes, orders."
"We are responsible to keep the light shining."
"First they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out..."
"It's not my country right or wrong, it's my country, you know where right to be kept right and where wrong to be put right."
"To have the means to help others and not do that, I think that's kind of like asking for it."
"We know we have an obligation to these men and women and their families." - Senior Administration Official
"There's a special place in Hell reserved for people who see the truth and don't act."
"Freedom by itself is all about being free to do what's right."
"If we love our children and our grandchildren, we have a moral responsibility."
"I felt like sharing this with you is simply a moral obligation."
"Middle-class people have a moral necessity to support working-class struggles."
"Man's role in this world is crucial; he's literally the only source of Morality."
"Just have to try to do right by people around you."
"And in the church barely makes a peep, you understand? We barely defend what God has created. The world then because of the lack of us showing up to the fight, the world has carte blanche to redefine things."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
"If good men do not... stand by and do nothing, then things will never get better."
"Aunt May's gonna tell Peter, 'With great power must also come great responsibility.'"
"We must not just confess our sins, iniquities, and transgressions, but the sins and transgressions of the ancestors."
"I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need."
"Children deserve to be protected and loved and cared for, not exploited by people who would use them in a disgusting, horrible way that God never ever intended."
"It's the duty of every good person to call out racism when they see it."
"Abandon this moral imperative to help those who need it most."
"If you're falling short, if you're sinning, make sure you're feeling guilt."
"Those in positions of power should always use that power to help those in need. To do otherwise would prove them unworthy of their strength."
"The belief we are still responsible for the actions we take, even though we lack true free will."
"Politics actually has the responsibility, it sees the moral dilemma and can do something about it."
"I made this. Oh, mean. Gotcha! Get away from me."
"If you own a business and you have somebody who's working for you and devoted their life to you and you have the means to help them out like that and you don't do it, then shame on you for that as well."
"Freedom comes with limitations and responsibilities."
"The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it."