Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

The highest duty is to respect authority.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

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.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

The true source of rights is duty.

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.