Quotes About Duty

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing'

Don't you have something more important to do?" I asked him, flipping on the light on. "Like ruling the world or something" -Mercy

Oh, well, if it's a matter of honor," I said. "You should have said that to begin with. Not that it has anything to do with deciding what we ought to do next, but I am sure you would have felt better for saying it.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You can't go taking the law into your own hands, Cade. Think about Lily." "I am thinking about Lily. If I weren't thinking about Lily I'd be out of here now, chasing Satan back where he came from.

No es cuestión de preguntarnos si queremos o no queremos ir. Tenemos que ir.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Doing what's right should be easy.

When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.

Aethe, near my heart. Without vanity, the ribbon. Without duty, the wind. Without blood, the victory.

No. You should take pleasure in following the Lethani. If you fight well, you should take pride in doing a thing well. For the fighting itself you should feel only duty and sorrow. Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever loves the fight itself has left the Lethani behind.

The point is that, whatever other people's failings might be, you are the one to shoulder the responsibility.

Please, go ahead and improve society if you can, but meanwhile people are suffering, and I have a job to do.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Most people would be full of questions," said the youth. "It's the nature of innocence to question, the nature of duty to accept." "And it's the nature of age to be too sure of itself.

Sir John, once he

And so, in a sense she made a prayer, and having done so, it existed; it was loosed. It was directed at the figure of the one whose love and duty called for her to intercede at the throne; and as with all prayers that arise from the sincere and loving heart, it was both heard and felt, in the far corners of the universe.

retired army captain

Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

You can't trust juries. Take it from me." "You don't believe in the system, that it, Luber?" "Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

The philosopher has a duty,... in reading scientific texts, to combine semantic tolerance with semantic criticism—to accept in practice what he denounces as a matter of principle, namely, the confusions that result from illegitimately converting correlations into identifications.

There are others, honest men beyond all doubt and sincerely concerned with their people's welfare, who seem to feel that it is the duty of a leader to discourage Negro mass action. They think that best results can be achieved by the quiet negotiations they carry on. And so when something happens that arouses the masses of people, and when the people gather in righteous anger to demand that militant actions be started, such men believe it their duty to cool things off.