Quotes About Duty

Tiktok. I can-not help be-ing your in-fer-i-or for I am a mere ma-chine. When I am wound up I do my du-ty by go-ing just as my ma-chin-er-y is made to go. You have no i-de-a how full of ma-chin-er-y I am. I can guess, said the Scarecrow, looking at the machine man curiously. Some day I'd like to take you apart and see just how you are made. Do not do that, I beg of you, said Tiktok; for you could not put me to-geth-er a-gain, and my use-ful-ness would be de-stroyed.

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.