The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics… — David Swing Copy Share Image
You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that we have a duty to look frankly at the social conditions around us and to work to do what… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to… — Cher Copy Share Image
When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go!… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being,… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine. — Ross Parsley Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
When I came to Washington, I believed that I had one duty, one purpose. I was elected to serve my district, my… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's -… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An'… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image