Quotes About Duty

and their stern Father God demands endless sacrifices, offers no joy on earth but only duty blindly obeyed, and threatens sadistic tortures (for an infinite number of years, according to some theologians) to anyone who crosses him. It almost seems as if history, at least in the Occident, repeats the pattern Freud found in the nursery, from oral bliss to anal anxiety.

Robert B. Parker

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there... Closing his eyes, he then slumps against the wall, as if the words he has spoken has used up all his energy.

Cole got out of his car first. He scanned the surrounding roofs and windows like a Secret Service agent clearing the way for the president, then meandered around his car to the passenger side. He hefted a long green duffel from behind the seat and slung it over his shoulder. Pike saw him wince. From the way the bag pulled, you could see it was heavy. Cole came back to the girl's side of the car.

Stoics belittle physical harm, but this is not braggadocio. They are speaking of it in comparison to the devastating agony of shame they fancied good men generating when they knew in their hearts that they had failed to do their duty

Simply put, there are actions of state that are the right things to do, even if they cannot be defined in terms of conventional morality.

The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.

The only distinction between him and the monsters he'd taken down was the legitimacy of being paid by the winning side. Or

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

There is only what you do and what you don't do

One last time, Mariam did as she was told.

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

If you're in Congress, don't you have to be there sometimes?

It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task -Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge

Vicdan ancak dans hocas? Shakespeare taraf?ndan icat edilmi?ti

And you always do your duty. Doesn't it ever get boring? I think that's why you're so attracted to me, because I've shaken your reasonable, rational, ordered life. I'd wager that you've felt more excitement with me in the last week than in centuries. That hit far too close to home. And I think I've never known anyone as egotistical as you. Egotistical? Try self-confident. Should I be meek instead? Would you like me better then?

You're goan to stay here and watch out for Evie. Earn your keep for once. You see a chance to kill or die for her today, then you take it!

Well, I must be off. Proto-Valkyrie and Soothsayer without Equal is a grueling, thankless job, but Nïxie must do it.

Do whatever you must, Karigan, he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, to come back. You must come back. To me. ~King Zachary

I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.

Self-regarding considerations can be as universalizable as other-regarding considerations: we owe things to ourselves as well to others

it is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that duty may seem to be. -Ozma

But why fight at all, in that case? asked the girl. So I may die with a clear conscience, returned the Wizard, gravely. It's every man's duty to do the best he knows how; and I'm going to do it.