Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our government is asking people to continue fighting wars for us but we don't always treat them as well as we do… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research. — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
“Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one’s self.” — Angelo Dirks Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time talking about what you should have done, use your time instead and do the next thing that is… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people. — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
In all forms of art, it's our duty to hold a mirror to society, without judgement of course. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a… — Sam Davis Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents;… — William James Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We believe it is our duty to deliver on the result of the E.U. referendum while maintaining close economic ties with our… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“At first Christ was a man – nothing more. Mary was his mother, Joseph his father. The genealogy of his father, Joseph,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful… — William James Copy Share Image
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
We view the protection of Jewish life as a mission. We have a historical responsibility, and this is our duty as a… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war. — African Spir Copy Share Image
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have no duty of care to improve the lot of poor Romanians or Poles or Pakistanis or anyone else who is… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“This is the sum of duty. Do not unto others that which would cause you pain if done to you.” — Mahabharata 5 1517 from the Vedic tradition of India circa 3000 BC Copy Share Image
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens — Steve King Copy Share Image
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
