Duty Quotes - page 7

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. (Oriana Fallaci)
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature. View quote
Georg Büchner
Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
At this point, an urgent question arises:... Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree? View quote
Émile Durkheim
I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty. View quote
Roman Dmowski
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and – to perfect it. View quote
Max Beckmann
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. View quote
Edmund Burke
I am well aware, that men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. View quote
Edmund Burke
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. View quote
William Barclay
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. View quote
W. H. Auden
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last . . . . A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. View quote
John Ruskin
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough. View quote
Norman Mailer
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ... View quote
Jane Addams
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun. View quote
Epictetus
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads. (Giuseppe Mazzini)
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. View quote
Giuseppe Mazzini
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. View quote
Zell Miller
The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don't understand. View quote
Gertrude Stein
There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it. View quote
E. M. Forster