I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control… — Jan Theuninck Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God… — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon… — Saint Boniface Copy Share Image
Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm;… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
