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8. “The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.”
Marcel Proust
Truth, War, Declared Daily, Continued Guilt, War Horrors, Moral Responsibility
9. “The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds...” Simone Weil Rights, Obligations, Social Philosophy, Moral Responsibility, Ethical Framework, Societal Norms
10. “Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.” Simone Weil Oppression, Empathy, Human Nature, Social Justice, Understanding, Moral Responsibility
11. “Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.” Simone Weil Intellect, Attention, Free Will, Philosophical Insight, Cognitive Processes, Moral Responsibility
13. “One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.” Simone Weil Partisanship, Justice, Persecution, Human Nature, Social Critique, Moral Responsibility
14. “Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?” Daniel Goleman Empathy, Moral Responsibility, Altruistic Behavior, Helping Others, Self-reflection, Kindness
17. “Everything happens to every man as if the entire human race were staring at him and measuring itself by what he does. So every man ought to be asking himself, “Am I really a man who is entitled to act in such a way that the entire human race should be measuring itself by my actions?” And if he does not ask himself that, he masks his anguish.” Jean-Paul Sartre Moral Responsibility, Self-reflection, Human Race, Responsibility, Society, Anxiety
26. “When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing, – then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really nothing.” Plato Parenting Virtue, Moral Responsibility, Ethical Teaching, Family Wisdom, Personal Growth
Moral Responsibility Quotes by Famous Authors
8. “The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.”
Marcel Proust Truth, War, Declared Daily, Continued Guilt, War Horrors, Moral Responsibility
9. “The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds...”
Simone Weil Rights, Obligations, Social Philosophy, Moral Responsibility, Ethical Framework, Societal Norms
10. “Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”
Simone Weil Oppression, Empathy, Human Nature, Social Justice, Understanding, Moral Responsibility
11. “Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.”
Simone Weil Intellect, Attention, Free Will, Philosophical Insight, Cognitive Processes, Moral Responsibility
13. “One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.”
Simone Weil Partisanship, Justice, Persecution, Human Nature, Social Critique, Moral Responsibility
14. “Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?”
Daniel Goleman Empathy, Moral Responsibility, Altruistic Behavior, Helping Others, Self-reflection, Kindness
17. “Everything happens to every man as if the entire human race were staring at him and measuring itself by what he does. So every man ought to be asking himself, “Am I really a man who is entitled to act in such a way that the entire human race should be measuring itself by my actions?” And if he does not ask himself that, he masks his anguish.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Moral Responsibility, Self-reflection, Human Race, Responsibility, Society, Anxiety
26. “When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing, – then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really nothing.”
Plato Parenting Virtue, Moral Responsibility, Ethical Teaching, Family Wisdom, Personal Growth
