Duty Quotes · Page 43

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

— Che Guevara

Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.

— Guler Sabanci

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

— Laurance Labadie

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity…

— Michel de Montaigne

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

— J. C. Ryle

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

— Swami Vivekananda

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when…

— Anonymous

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a…

— Matt Gonzalez

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command,…

— Edward Gibbon

I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way. ...…

— Rick Riordan

At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as…

— George Carey

This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being…

— James Freeman Clarke

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to…

— S. Parkes Cadman

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour…

— May Sarton

I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a…

— Wole Soyinka

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living-…

— Anonymous

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very…

— Horace Bushnell

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to…

— Anne Bronte

I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,…

— Bob Hope

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

— Zadie Smith

“There should ne’er be a time When a duty or dime Doth outshine The importance of family.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“When there are too many assholes around, I feel like its my duty to be a dick.”

— Hazar Emiral

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

— Jon Meacham

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

— Steven Biko

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

— Carol Channing

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock…

— Patti Smith

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

— George Bernard Shaw

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Judges are human beings. We have a duty that we focus on and that we take seriously.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Man's duty comes from heaven.Therefore,he fails in his duty at his peril.The wise man makes duty his aim at all times.

— CONFUCIANISM

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod…

— William Wordsworth

Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

— Jose Angel Gutierrez

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

— Umberto Eco