Commandments Quote by Immanuel Kant

“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of obedience is…

— Jill Thrussell

“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can…

— F. Sionil José

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one’s self.”

— Angelo Dirks

“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.”

— George Hammond

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to…

— Robert E. Lee

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

“One's own duty, though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well performed. Even death in the performance of one's own…

— Gita Press

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

“find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest”

— Swami Vivekananda

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel