Quotes About Duty

They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked.

try to do the right thing. Even though everybody hates us and nobody helps us and nobody thanks us afterward. I think doing the right thing is an end in itself. It has to be, really, doesn't it?

He was the Praetorian Guard, and they were the great gentlemen.

Reacher said, "They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked. "I went to college," Reacher said. "West Point is technically a college.

There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Than there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people.

Certain it is that many of his stern deeds were for the right as he understood that right to be.

military cop.

I try to do the right thing. Even though everybody hates us and nobody helps us and nobody thanks us afterward. I think doing the right thing is an end in itself. It has to be, really, doesn't it?

Through the shift of emphasis from natural duties or obligations to natural rights, the individual, the ego, had become the center and origin of the moral world, since man—as distinguished from man's end—had become that center or origin.

Advocates of self-sacrifice hold that a man's primary obligation is to serve some entity outside of himself.

Our own German language possesses a word which magnificently designates this kind of activity: Pflichterfüllung (fulfillment of duty); it means not to be self-sufficient but to serve the community." (Meln Kampf)

Nature is full of infinite reasons which have not yet passed into experience. He conceived it to be the painter's duty not only to comment on natural phenomena as restrained by law, but to merge his very mind into that of nature by interpreting its relation with art.

So ist es," sagte die Herzogin, "und die Moral davon ist – Mit Liebe und Gesange hält man die Welt im Gange!" "Wer sagte denn," flüsterte Alice, "es geschehe dadurch, daß Jeder vor seiner Thüre fege.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

In Oklahoma, and perhaps elsewhere too, Klan membership was automatically suspended for any man called for jury duty, so that he could deny it and not be excluded for bias.

Sometimes there was a difference between the law and justice, and sometimes justice had to step outside the law. The proof of that, he thought just before he fell asleep, was that he didn't work for the Department of Law; he worked for the Department of Justice…and Justice had been served.

Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.

Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.

They took an oath. I don't believe it was to serve and protect only people who make intelligent life choices.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.