Quotes About Duty

What about the duty to protest? What Mark was doing is as old as Thoreau. Civil disobedience is as American as—killing Indians!" His father smiled, just the smallest curving of his mouth. "That answers itself, Son.

I respect the office of the president.

Svarte shared this view, but he was obliged to obey.

Let the Nature do his Job I'm happy to do mine for love and Protect iT.

When you go to court, you're putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!!

Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!

... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his messages, for his Love at least--his Duty I suppose was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced however that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of Tea.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

I like to hope that there are more good people in the world than evil people' she said. 'I would like to hope that too', the old man said, 'but I don't. There are good people, however, and our duty in life is to be one of them, even though we will generally be outnumbered.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

If God has given us the gift of creativity, 'much is required' in the way of our using it to his glory.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

My personal pride must not be allowed to stand in the way of my duty to the country. If I am only half efficient, I should turn the office over to the vice president. If it is going to take much time for me to recover my health and strength, the country cannot afford to wait for me.

My heart is full and my weapon is clean.

Don't be impressed by the fact a guy doesn't pressure you. He doesn't get any points for that. It's his duty as a gentleman.

Artistic prejudices are always the most difficult to root out. Critics - whose duty should be to see beyond the pretensions of artists and the public's passing fancies - often allow themselves to be persuaded by the way authors present their work, by what they say they have achieved, or else are guided by whatever has been a wild success - usually in order to take the opposing view - and which had been damningly labelled 'popular.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.

Only thus may we carry the truth to those without, and though the likelihood of our narrative being given credence is, I grant you, remote, so wedded are mortals to their stupid infatuation for impossible superstitions, we should be craven cowards indeed were we to shirk the plain duty which confronts us.

It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret — according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes — no one living knows more of mine than I. (La of Opar)