Quotes About Duty

The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.

We do what we do," she said. "We do what we must." "Right," she said. "What we must.

The first duty of love is to listen.

More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

I don't think much of oaths that bind good people to do things they know they shouldn't. If someone is committed to a cause, the only oath they need to swear is to do their duty.

Shankara assured her he would return whenever his mother, conscious, unconscious or burdened by sorrow, needed him.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.

Thee I do not look on, no, For, alas! it is of moment, That he must not see thy beauty Who is pledged to see thy honour.

Al Rey la hacienda y la vida Se ha de dar; pero el honor Es patrimonio del alma Y el alma sólo es de Dios.

your absence, but with my cousin in such very poor health still, I feel I cannot leave her, so…' The old

Hij schijnt hiermee bedoeld te hebben dat scherpzinnigheid en spiritualiteit de mens niet door een hoger wezen geschonken waren, maar dat ze door onze levenservaringen worden gevormd. Het was de plicht jegens de naaste, die zin aan alles verleende en die een innerlijke tevredenheid teweegbracht, die het leven zin gaf en de handelingen van de mens diende te bepalen

Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one of the conditions of that system of society towards which, with whatever hope of ultimate success, it is our duty to tend.

Toward whatsoever we regard as perfect, undoubtedly, it is no less our duty than it is our nature to press forward; this is the generous enthusiasm which accomplishes not indeed the consummation after which it aspires, but one which approaches it in a degree far nearer than if the whole powers had not been developed by a delusion. It is in politics rather than in religion that faith is meritorious.

The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, and walk dutifuly back into his father's charred vision of the world.

There are things in your life that you don't want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.

We're so crucified, in fact, that we read elsewhere, "You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3). Our lives are hidden—strong language, like we're not even in the picture. And being hidden with Christ and being "in" God sounds downright mystical enough to unsettle—as it should—anyone who thinks that the Christian's first duty is to make sure to think the right thoughts.

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

Why?' he asked. 'Absolution.' He didn't get it, they never did. His death was a duty, ordered by guilt. Greg had learnt all about duty from the Army

You die a sergeant

Teaching the police to be more sensitive to the most exploited and oppressed is only a strategy designed to prevent police heavy-handedness from unintentionally sparking rebellions as they trample people in the performance of their duties.

paterfamilias.

was more than a warrior's creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.

Las personas que tenían una profunda fe religiosa eran afortunadas; podían abdicar todas sus responsabilidades en Dios.