Quotes About Duty

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to for the greater good.

Some things are worth going to jail for, Victor," replied Bowden in an even tone. "As LiteraTecs we swore to uphold and defend the written word—not indulge a crazed politician's worst paranoic fantasies.

José Antonio Primo de Rivera repetía como si fuera suya: «A última hora siempre ha sido un pelotón de soldados el que ha salvado la civilización».

Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal.

I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.

Hope is a duty. Hope is our reality. Shelley says so and he believes it so, but for me the light has gone out. The light inside and the light outside. I have no lantern and no lighthouse. I am at sea in waves too high and the rocks wreck me.

If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.

Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir.

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme, aux droits de l'humanité, même à ses devoirs.

Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; it is at best an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a moral duty?

Reconcile those who are at strife, prevent lawsuits; incline children to duty, fathers to kindness; promote happy marriages; prevent annoyances; freely use the credit of your pupil's parents on behalf of the weak who cannot obtain justice, the weak who are oppressed by the strong. Be just, human, kindly. Do

mas también con la satisfacción interior, que experimentaba por vez primera, de poder decirme: "Merezco mi propia estimación; sé preferir mi deber a mi placer".

I may be asked whether I am a prince or a legislator that I should be writing about politics. I answer no: and indeed that is my reason for doing so. If I were a prince or a legislator I should not waste my time saying what ought to be done; I should do it or keep silent.

Pero la indolencia, el descuido y las dilaciones en los pequeños deberes que tenía que llenar, me han hecho más daño que los grandes vicios.

Según esto, ¿en qué consiste un derecho que se acaba cuando la fuerza cesa? Si se ha de obedecer por fuerza, no hay necesidad de obedecer por deber; y cuando a uno no le pueden forzar a obedecer, ya no está obligado a hacerlo.

Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre, a los derechos de la humanidad y a sus mismos deberes. No hay indemnización posible para el que renuncia a todo. Semejante renuncia es incompatible con la naturaleza del hombre; y quitar toda clase de libertad a su voluntad, es quitar toda moralidad a sus acciones.

He visto que para obrar el bien con placer era preciso que actuase libremente, sin coacción, y que para privarme de toda la dulzura de una buena obra bastaba con que se convirtiera en un deber para mí.

THE STRONGEST IS NEVER STRONG enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is really laid down as a fundamental principle.

Güç maddesel bir ÅŸeydir. Bundan nas?l bir ahlak ç?kabilir, bilmem. Güce boyun eÄŸmek, bir istem iÅŸi deÄŸil, bir zorunluluk; olsa olsa bir sak?nt? iÅŸidir. Ne bak?mdan ödev olabilir bu?