“Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty. — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
I always tell people that being the mayor of an urban city for eight years was like getting run over by a… — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and… — Petrarch 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be.… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties? — Garth Crooks Copy Share Image
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal Copy Share Image
The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos 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 duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.” — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day. — Olivia Holt Copy Share Image
