Quotes About Duty

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.