Quotes About Duty

While they went on writing and making speeches, we saw field hospitals and men dying: while they preached the service of the state as the greatest thing, we already knew that the fear of death is even greater.

While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

Selam duruÅŸ, esas vaziyet, merasim geçiÅŸi, tüfek as, saÄŸa dön, sola dön, topuk vur, küfür, azar, binlerce eziyet! Biz görevimizi baÅŸka türlü düÅŸünmüÅŸtük; bir de bakt?k ki, kahramanl??a, sirk atlar? gibi yetiÅŸtiriliyoruz.

While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

There are thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom are convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing.

It's queer, when one thinks about it," goes on Kropp, "we are here to protect our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who's in the right?

But how can a man look after anyone in the field!

While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves. But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—

Tahaksin teada, missuguse sõja jaoks tema on määratud.

Tas ir sav?di: pien?kuma apzi?a cilv?kam ir pirms divdesmit pieciem un p?c tr?sdesmit pieciem gadiem; pirmaj? reiz? aiz ide?lisma, v?l?k aiz praktiskiem apsv?rumiem. - Pa vidu ir untumu un neapr??in?mu ideju laiks.

But in a situation like Sixth Army's, the German military code demands that when lives are at stake, the officers must take second place to the men. It

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds.

He issued an appeal to the greater spirit of Britons everywhere. "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.

You on duty at ten this morning?" he asked the attendant. The man hesitated before answering. Mason said, "You're eligible for a five dollar reward, if you were.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

There was so much to write. He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would.

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.

I wish I could feed the fish, he thought. He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong to do it.