Quotes About Duty

Honor? What do you care about honor? Honor gets people killed!' 'At least they die for something,' I say, and he doesn't protest further.

Sometimes I think being a cop is less dangerous than being married.

Where have all the young men gone? Gone to soldiers, every one.

The least free people in a free society are people like us who have a sworn duty to defend the constitution.

Joe Smith had a Russian knocking on his door asking to be put up on the sly, Joe would be on the horn to the FBI in a flash. Joe does that because he thinks it's right, not because he thinks the FBI will torture him if he doesn't.

He could be an officer without worrying about being a gentleman.

Some [surrendering Germans] would crawl on their knees,' recalled one British soldier, 'holding a picture of a woman or a child in their hands above their heads but everyone was killed. The excitement was gone. We killed in cold blood because it was our duty to kill as much as we could.

What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.

Every actor has his or her own style, so it is the duty of the director to mould it the way they want.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

You will have to take up responsibility in multiple areas as a lead actor. Let's say, I don't have that capacity.

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

I saw the discrimination that was happening towards Middle Easterners, Muslims and other brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11. It suddenly felt like a duty of mine to talk about some of the crazy things that were going on and make fun of how stupid it was.

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

Increased demands on the members of the Iowa National Guard often means increased time away from home and increased responsibility for those left behind.

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

I've been a stalwart for national security.

There's so many things, when you're in national security, that you do that aren't perfect, but you do them because you think you're doing what the country needs to be safe.

For Croatians it means everything to play for the national team. Because of the past. A lot of people died in the war. It's like a duty for us to give everything.

There is no shame in fear, Orgrim and Durotan. Only in letting fear prevent you from doing the right thing.

For a moment, she spared compassion for him. What had his life been like when he was a youngling? There had been no one to give him hugs or tell stories, no loving parental hands to soothe childhood's nightmares. Only brothers, identical in every way, who had been raised as clinically as he. Brothers, and duty, and death.