Quotes About Duty

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.

Non saprei meglio terminare le nostre conversazioni che esprimendo il desiderio che possiate nella vostra esistenza meritare d'essere comparati ad una candela; che possiate com'essa brillare qual fiamma per coloro che vi circondano, che possiate in tutte le vostre azioni emulare la bellezza del lucignolo, adempiendo con onore ed efficacia i vostri doveri verso i vostri simili.

Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck

I can understand the feeling of a man struggling to escape the practical slavery imposed by the multitude of obligations which crowd upon a man who tries to be a good citizen. Root writes to Jack Morgan in 1927 about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Michael Gross' Rogues Gallery

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

It may be a dangerous and confusing job. But it's mine to do…

No law or prior pledge can insure loyalty if the cause itself becomes unworthy in the mind and conscience of the individual. In such cases, dishonoring the oath of allegiance may be a nobler course of action.

The "myth of redemptive violence undergirds American popular culture, civil religion, nationalism, and foreign policy," argues Walter Wink.48 It underwrites the belief that killing and/or dying for the national interest is a sacred duty and even privilege. Service to the nation—especially military service, and particularly dying for one's country—is the highest form of both civic and religious devotion.

Karl von Clausewitz states that in war, uncertainty, danger, and unpredictability are countered only through such moral forces of courage, self-confidence, esprit, and a sense of duty.96

This line of reasoning leads Kant to the second formulation of the categorical imperative: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."23 This is the formula of humanity as an end.

A carefully crafted evasion pays homage to the duty of truth-telling in a way that an outright lie does not. Anyone who goes to the bother of concocting a misleading but technically true statement when a simple lie would do expresses, however obliquely, respect for the moral law.

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

The White House Situation Room is not just a room. It is a complex of multiple spaces manned 24/7 by rotating teams of duty officers and communications specialists. Team members are on loan from intelligence agencies, the State Department, and the military services.

Still more striking is the fact that Kant unites epistemology and ethics specifically through the concept of law.

Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open an exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Do not expect to be applauded when you do the right thing, and do not expect to be forgiven when you err. But even your enemies will respect commitment - and a conscience at peace is worth more than a thousand tainted victories

I intend to do the same with him that I'd do for you or any other man in this brigade.

To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men.

The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. —

The truth is, life as a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by sudden bursts of activity.

We serve at the president's displeasure,

resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for.