Quotes About Duty

On s'empresse de les décharger de toute tâche pénible et de tout souci: c'est les délivrer du même coup de toute responsabilité. On espère qu'ainsi dupées, séduites par la facilité de leur condition, elles accepteront le rôle de mère et de ménagére dans lequel on veut les confiner.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

L'intelligence n'a rien à trouver, elle a à déblayer. Elle n'est bonne qu'aux tâches serviles.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to fight oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose

Antinomianism may be couched in doctrinal and theological terms, but it both betrays and masks the heart's distaste for absolute divine obligation, or duty. That

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. -Sherlock Holmes

It's every man's business to see justice done.

You may consider me to be a murderer; but I hold that I am just as much an officer of justice as you are.

I tell thee, proud Templar, that not in thy fiercest battles hast thou displayed more of thy vaunted courage than has been shown by woman when called upon to suffer by affection or duty.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

Some people are born into roles. Others have roles thrust upon them.

I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon.

I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

ANTIGONE: A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ... CREON: So am I purposed; never by my will Shall miscreants take precedence of true men, But all good patriots, alive or dead, Shall be by me preferred and honored. ... GUARD: Take it all in all, I deem A man's first duty is to serve himself.

I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing.

once he returns, then, then I'll be a traitor if I do not do all the god makes clear.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.