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Duty Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not…
- Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
- Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
- War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and…
- Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you…
- The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
- Our first duty is not to be poor.
- Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very…
- When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
More Duty Quotes
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss… — Charles Babbage
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in… — John Banville
- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- 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