Quotes About Duty

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

In the Canadiens' dressing room, on a wall above the players' lockers, is a line from John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields." It reads: To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high.

We're here now, we have the means to stop the suffering and therefore the duty to act.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

nonconsequentialists often say here is that people have a duty to be just, but that they are also entitled to have and to pursue their own concept of a good life. It is this self-chosen sense of the good, which includes religion and culture, that we must respect even if we disagree or believe that ours is superior.

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Kent Masterson Brown

Battle is a way of life, a necessary function of the worthiest members of society.

Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

Once a strategic afterthought, homeland defense has become an urgent duty. For most of our history, America felt safe behind two great oceans. But with the spread of technology, distance no longer means security.

Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice.

If you haven't found out already, you will surely learn someday that the honor of getting on a prestigious board includes the duty to give service on a committee —

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery.

In general, the heart seems to have a more reliable memory for what benefits the psyche than does the head, which has a rather unhealthy tendeny to lead an 'abstract' existence, and easily forgets that its consciousness is snuffed out the moment the heart fails its duty.

All these guiding principles in therapy confront the doctor with important ethical duties which can be summed up in the single rule: be the man through whom you wish to influence others.

Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbour, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas. The worst of it is that he is quite right. All one's neighbours are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear, just like oneself.

There is one necessary but hidden and strange work—a major work—which you must do in secret, for the sake of the dead.

Joe nodded. "We're required to report bullet wounds.

You ought to get a bumper sticker that says, 'What would Dudley Do-Right Do?' Call it W-W-D-D-R-D. that has a ring to it. (Gov. Rulon to Joe Pickett)

Am I my brother's keeper?

everything I'd ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.