Quotes About Duty

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.

In the end, you should always do the right thing even if it hurts.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Those who do the right thing don't do it simply because of how they feel: the decision has to be based on reason, reason that tells you what your duty is, regardless of how you happen to feel.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.

Love responsibility. Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame.

I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation.

It is of no particular interest that one man is quite happy to lie in behalf of a cause which he knows to be unjust; but it is significant that such events provoke so little response in the intellectual community—no feeling, for example, that there is something strange in the offer of a major chair in humanities to a historian who feels it to be his duty to persuade the world that an American-sponsored invasion of a nearby country is nothing of the sort.

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

You're a warrior. A warrior isn't a killer because a warrior, a true one, has honor. The men who'll come aren't warriors." "No

Because it was right. Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was right.

Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She

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With great power comes great responsibility

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. —GEORGE PEELE