Quotes
Quotes about Duty
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
Thank God, I have done my duty.
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.
The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
What is possible is our highest duty.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
