Quotes About Duty

Because I'm not doing it so people will think I'm great. It needs to be done, I can do it, so I do, and I don't want people making a big deal out of it." Kira realized that her mouth was hanging open and closed it. "You sound like my mother. And my father. Which I never expected to say to you.

Jason slumped over, his eyes closed. "Gotta save lives," he mumbled. "Gotta save people." Opening his eyes, he began working off his own boots.

Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer.

Not the action. The mission. I miss the mission.

want any of you jarheads to screw this up.

You don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines! I'm... snowballs and fun times. I'm not a Guardian.

What can I do with these people? They come to the risk so dutifully. Are delighted by anecdotes that give them Poetry. Are grateful to be told of diagonals that give them Painting. Good people. But stubborn when warned the beast is not domestic. How can I persuade them that the dark, soulful Keats was five feet one? Liked fighting and bear-baiting? I can't explain the red hair. Nor say how you died so full of lust for Fanny Brawne. I will tell them of Semele.

The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel—or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good—and as bad—as the man who carries it. Remember that.

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

I used to feed the chickens for you all the time," said Evan. Jessie

But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives.

For love of country they accepted death.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

reading off the names in rotation, I called out each morning the guard for the day. We had in the