Quotes About Duty

Some man of powerful character to command a person, morally subjected to him, to perform some act. The commanding person suddenly to die; and, for all the rest of his life, the subjected one continues to perform that act.

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

We took them up to the register, where the student worker on duty had a large silver ring pierced through the side of her nose. I had an urge to get Rochester's leash and see if I could hook it to her ring, but I resisted.

Veterans of Foreign Wars, who

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

As a Park Ranger I will protect and serve you...But we'll never be friends. Is that going to be a problem? The tarantula stopped, its front pair of legs feeling the air.

Estas son las doce cualidades que le fueron dadas al hombre en la fundación del mundo. El deber del hombre es elevarlas al nivel de discipulado.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

The coroner summed up at considerably length and with commendable simplicity. His manner suggested that the jury as a whole was certifiable as mentally unsound, but that he knew his duty and would perform it in the teeth of stupidity.

men all over the Victory were running to their posts, some to other tasks but the vast majority to man the ship's 104 guns

Who was this Dr. Blom? The duty officer for fielding dreamers of Atlantis, hollow-earthers, the flying-saucer crowd?

With dreams comes responsibility.

They did not say that it was Afrikaanophobic to be judgemental about religion, or explain that it was imperialist to criticise the beliefs of 'the other'. If a religion was oppressive or a culture repugnant, one had a duty to offend it.

I can tell he's a good man who doesn't like his job for all the right reasons. He seemed on the verge of constant indigestion. "If

That's other guys. I'm more of the beaten NCO who sighs and looks off toward wherever as you tell him the next problem he's got to jump all over before everything catches fire and we explode in every direction.

True love isn't a fleeting thing; contrarily, it is a current of water that replenishes effortlessly, as its inherent, underlying duty is to do just that. Like truth, love shall set you free.

For a while she enjoyed a life in which she behaved exactly as she should: a royal maid with no secrets.

She had to be the king's fist, a killer. She had asked for this task. It must be done.

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called "human rights" serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law. The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another's duty.

There is nothing more common than to transform a duty that inconveniences us into an "ethical dilemma".

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

Ni cristianismo ni paganismo, enseñan éticas altruistas. Tanto la moral cristiana, como la moral pagana, son individualismos éticos, que imponen deberes sociales, tan solo como medios de nuestra perfección terrestre o de nuestra salvación enigmática.

Weder Christentum noch Heidentum lehren eine altruistische Ethik. Die christliche wie die heidnische Moral sind ethische Individualismen, die soziale Pflichten einzig als Mittel zu unserer irdischen Vervollkommnung oder zu unserer geheimnisvollen Rettung auferlegen.