Quotes About Duty

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

I have to adhere to the truth," I said.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

Unos días después de su muerte un ujier del departamento se presentó en su casa para ordenarle que se reincorporara inmediatamente a su puesto de trabajo , pues así lo exigía el jefe. Pero no pudo cumplir su misión y a la vuelta declaró que Akaki Akákievich no aparecería más por allí. «¿Por qué?», le preguntaron. «Porque ha muerto —respondió—. Hace cuatro días que lo enterraron.»

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

you can be a hero, too. For England.

It's not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it's the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.

Kar?m dü?ündü?ü için, ev i?lerini de ben görüyordum albay?m. Çok dü?ünceli kad?nd?: Durmadan dü?ünürdü.

Ölmek bile kendilerine böyle bir görev verilenlerin i?idir.

What are guards but villagers doing a tiresome, temporary duty?

Un citoyen ignoré par l'administration est, d'une certaine façon, voué à la non-existence. Il ne faut toutefois pas ignorer qu'une personne privée de ses droits n'a nul devoir à accomplir.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

The fantasies of 'academic freedom' . . . cannot protect a professor who counsels resistance to the law and speaks, writes, disseminates treason. That a teacher of youth should teach sedition and treason, that he should infect, or seek to infect, youthful minds with ideas fatal to their duty to the country, is intolerable.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.