To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. — Bill Vaughan 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
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
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens — Steve King Copy Share Image
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
I was a fan of 'Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,' and I got into 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops,' which was… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact… — Gautam Adani Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory… — Lidia Yusupova Copy Share Image
I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people. — Martha McSally 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
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
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
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
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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