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Quotes About Duty

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
~ Jean Baudrillard
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
~ Jojo Moyes
Imaš samo jedan život. Zapravo ti je dužnost proživjeti ga punim plu?ima.
~ Jojo Moyes
Tienes que salir de aquí, Clark. Prométeme que no vas a pasar el resto de tus días atrapada en esta maldita parodia de postal de vacaciones. […] Eres demasiado inteligente. Demasiado interesante. […] Solo se vive una vez. En realidad, es tu deber que sea una vida plena.
~ Jojo Moyes
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible." "Okay," I said, carefully.
~ Jojo Moyes
Sie haben nur ein einziges Leben. Es ist Ihre Pflicht, so viel wie möglich daraus zu machen.
~ Jojo Moyes
Today as a young generation,It's our duty to consolidate liberation achievements for a sustainable economic development ".
~ Jolly Mutesi
We ought to read and search the Holy Scriptures much, and do it with the design to know the whole of our duty, and in order that the word of God may be "a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our paths." Psal. cxix. 105. Every one ought to strive to get knowledge in divine things, and to grow in such knowledge, to the end that he may know his duty, and know what God would have him to do.
~ Jonathan Edwards
most of the duties incumbent on us, if well considered, will be found to partake of the nature of justice.
~ Jonathan Edwards
We ought to be much concerned to know whether we do not live in the gratification of some lust, either in practice or in our thoughts: whether we do not live in the omission of some duty, some thing which God expects we should do; whether we do not go into some practice or manner of behaviour, which is not warrantable.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Ali said he felt a duty to explain Islam to Americans and to explain America to Muslims.
~ Jonathan Eig
In this world, equality and personal autonomy were not sacred values. Honoring elders, gods, and guests, protecting subordinates, and fulfilling one's role-based duties were more important.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Turiel's account of moral development differed in many ways from Kohlberg's, but the political implications were similar: morality is about treating individuals well. It's about harm and fairness (not loyalty, respect, duty, piety, patriotism, or tradition).
~ Jonathan Haidt
A Durkheimian society would value self-control over self-expression, duty over rights, and loyalty to one's groups over concerns for out-groups.
~ Jonathan Haidt
So who is guilty? Everyone, or no one? Why should the worker assigned to the gas chamber be guiltier than the worker assigned to the boilers, the garden, the vehicles? The
~ Jonathan Littell
A ty zabija?e? ludzi"?.-"Raz musia?em dobija?. Ale zazwyczaj zajmowa?em si? wywiadem, pisa?em raporty".-"A co czu?e?, jak strzela?e? do tych ludzi?". Odpowiedzia?em bez wachania: "To samo, co czu?em, patrz?c, jak inni strzelaj?. Gdy istnieje taka konieczno??, staje si? niewa?ne, kto to robi. Poza tym uwa?am, ?e patrz??, ponosz? tak? sam? odpowiedzialno?? jak ci, co strzelaj?".
~ Jonathan Littell
Nechci, aby naši muži trp?li pocitem osobní zodpov?dnosti.
~ Jonathan Littell
Povinností velitel? je ob?tovat N?mecku své pochybnosti.
~ Jonathan Littell
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
There are failings to which intensely religious people are sometimes prone, namely, indifference to the injustices of society, a willingness to overlook corruption within their own ranks, and a tendency to believe that attachment to God relieves one of the duty to be upright, civil, and gracious in one's dealings with human beings.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Holiness belongs to all of us when we turn our lives into the service of God, and society into a home for the Divine Presence.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Cruelty to animals is wrong, not because animals have rights but because we have duties. The duty not to be cruel is intended to promote virtue, and the primary context of virtue is the relationship between human beings. But virtues are indivisible.
~ Jonathan Sacks
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer