Quotes About Duty

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

I hate to give Seth chores. Usually when he comes, I leave

If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do.

There is something almost sacred about the bond that unites these troops

Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

He considered both doctors and nurses as monsters of insensitivity, in spite of the fact that he admired their devotion to duty.

Instead—out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need—we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory—a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase the same way we buy clothing and furniture.

When Spinoza in the seventeenth century used the word reason, he meant an attitude toward life in which the mind united the emotions with the ethical goals and other aspects of the "whole man." When people today use the term they almost always imply a splitting of the personality. They ask in one form or another: "Should I follow reason or give way to sensual passions and needs or be faithful to my ethical duty?

Bir kimsenin ancak sorumlu oldu?u ölçüde özgür olabilece?i paradoksu özgürlü?ün her noktas?nda merkezdedir. Fakat aksi de do?rudur. Bir kimse ancak özgür oldu?unda sorumlu olabilir.

If I decide to make a career in the army, he said, I would never be rich, but I would live one of the most satisfying lives there was to be had. Then he warned me that satisfaction would come at a great cost to me and any family I might have. I should never expected to be thanked; a soldier, if he was going to be content, had to understand that no civilian, no government, sometimes not even the army itself, would recognize the true nature of the scarifies he made.

I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision.

In Sanskrit, there exists no word for 'The Individual' (L'Individu). En Grèce antique, il n'y avait aucun mot pour dire 'Devoir' (Duty). In French, the word for 'Wife' is the same as the word for 'Woman.' En anglais, nous n'avons aucun mot semblable à l'exquise 'Jouissance!

Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout.

It was, Eliza Hamilton Holly noted pointedly, the imperative duty that Eliza had bequeathed to all her children: Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton.