Quotes about Duties

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.

Values and Duties Moral value refers to the worth of a person or action, whether it is good or bad. Moral duty refers to our obligation to act in a certain way, whether that action is right or wrong.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?