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Duty Quotes by Immanuel Kant
- What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
- Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he…
- cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a…
- [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
- Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.
- This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little…
- Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom…
- To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of…
- Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
- An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
- When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state…
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