Quotes About Duty

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

In reference to how he came to love music after hearing Mozart's sonatas] I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty, at least for me.

L'insegnamento che viene elargito dovrebbe essere percepito come un regalo prezioso e non come un dovere imposto

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

It is no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Ceux qui ont le privilège de savoir ont le devoir d'agir.

Cei care au privilegiul de a ?ti, au datoria de a ac?iona

Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

Y éste es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno TIENE que hacer.

To most people radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of the dilemma is to persist at all costs in the ignorance which permits one to go on doing wrong in the comforting belief that by doing so one is doing one's duty- one's duty to the company, to the shareholders, to the family, the city, the state, the fatherland, the Church.

Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

los hombres se someten a amar lo que tienen que hacer, sin saber siquiera que eso es someterse.

My mother used to talk a lot about Christian charity; but somehow one never believed what she said, just as one never felt any love in all the self-sacrificing things she was always forcing herself to do—-no love, only duty.

Grief and remorse, compassion and duty - all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. 'Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?' Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. 'Don't you?' he repeated, but got no answer to his question.