Quotes About Duty

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God? Muad'Dib

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it.

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She

Gurney's a romantic," the Duke growled. This talk of killing suddenly disturbed him, coming from his son. "I'd sooner you never had to kill…but if the need arises, you do it however you can—tip or edge." He looked up at the skylight, on which the rain was drumming.

Can you take him, Gurney?" "M'Lord jests!

Quem governa assume uma responsabilidade irrevogável pelos governados. Você é um fazendeiro. Isso exige, em certos momentos, um ato de amor altruísta que talvez pareça apenas divertido para aqueles a quem você governa.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. —FROM "MUAD'DIB: THE NINETY-NINE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Si siempre me comporto como es debido sin tener en cuenta lo que me cueste suprimir mis propios deseos, eso es lo único que quedará de mí.

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.

few understand the ultimate peril to humankind—that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

Quem governa assume uma responsabilidade irrevogável pelos governados. Você é um fazendeiro. Isso exige, em certo momentos, um ato de amor altruísta que talvez pareça apenas divertido para aqueles a quem você governa.

The aristocrat's unspoken duty—to teach, and sometimes by horrible example.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. -From Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe by The Princess Irulan

Deber y responsabilidad. Qué seguro refugio ofrecían ambas cosas en momentos que exigían decisiones difíciles.

THERE IS ENCHANTMENT in a uniform, especially one that marks the wearer as a person of rare skills, courage or achievement. A

Gregor's serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.

If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?

I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.

Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.