Translation of "Moralischen pflicht" in English

There is no escape from the moral imperative to help them.

But your moral duty?

What has been performed regarding moral obligations may not be claimed back.

Indeed, under certain circumstances this right may become his moral duty.

Peace with justice means meeting our moral obligations.

Were people to no longer die from smoking if all aid was cut off, I would be the first to observe this moral command.

On economic, but above all on ethical and moral grounds, it is our duty to preserve people from this fate in this century of the information society and of lifelong learning.

This reality, though, does not in any way justify the way in which Malta thinks it should handle its moral and lawful duty.

Firstly, Member States must assume responsibility for additional security costs in the light of the terrorist attacks and recognise their moral duty to protect their citizens.

In that way we shall be ready for every eventuality which could occur and as I pointed out before, we would not only be saving many millions but we would be fulfilling our moral duty to protect the life of those more prone to these disasters.

The EU and the Member States have a moral and political obligation to both EU citizens and the rest of the world to address the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in a politically coherent and coordinated way.

I shall vote in their favour to meet a moral and civil duty, and in my capacity as a Member of Parliament elected by the citizens of Europe, over four million of whom have demonstrated in the streets of our capitals.

Not one mention of our moral and professional obligation of preventing harm to the public, or the fact that we have all this expertise, resources and, for some, even tenure to, you know, accomplish this task.

But such behaviour necessarily involves the moral and political obligation to put forward at the same time a clear, well-defined alternative, which is capable of restoring the credibility of monetary union.

The European Union urges all parties to the conflict to respect in full their legal and moral obligations to protect civilians.

In the early 1990s, the European Union recognised both its politicalduty to coordinate humanitarianinterventions in countries outsidethe EU, and its moral duty to showsolidarity with their civilian populations, who were now the deliberatevictims of chronic and ferociousconflicts.

Their children are being maimed and mur­dered day in and day out and we in the West have a moral duty laid upon us.

Apart from the fact that the countries of the Mediterranean basin - with which we have geographical ties, and whose history we partly share - are natural markets for our industries, it can be argued that we have a moral duty to help the peoples of these countries to find their feet again and build a better future.

In this context, the ultimate goal of the total elimination of nuclear weapons becomes both a challenge and a moral and humanitarian imperative.

We, the Palestinians and Jews who have escaped apartheid in Israel, are here in Germany to fulfill our civic and moral duty to fight for transnational solidarity, equality and justice.

As a public cantonal institution the Art Museum Graubünden not only bears the responsibility but also has the moral obligation to know the provenance of the artworks in its own collection.

This turns work into a Christian and moral duty, while laziness and idleness become "the root of all evil".

Elizabeth Anscombe from the philosophical faculty of Cambridge University, for example, rigorously demanded in her essay Modern Moral Philosophy of 1958 that the terms moral obligation and moral duty be part of the index.