Quotes About Duty

The good soldier swears to kill. Fire the cannon, mount the barricade, lock and load. Smell your brother's blood on your shirt. Wipe your sister's brains off your face. Die, if you have to, so they'll live. Kill to keep your people alive, live to kill some more.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

HOW CHEQUERED IS HUMAN LIFE! HOW PRECARIOUS IS HAPPINESS! HOW EASILY DO WE OFTEN PART WITH IT FOR A SHADOW! THESE ARE THE REFLECTIONS THAT FREQUENTLY INTRUDE THEMSELVES UPON ME, WITH A PAINFUL APPLICATION. I AM GOING TO DO MY DUTY. –LETTER FROM COLONEL ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation, what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end: a choice.

See, when something's the right thing to do, you don't do it for a reward.

A green X-wing closed in tighter to the formation. Yes, sir. Though distorted by the comm system, the voice sounded indulgent rather than military. That's 'Yes, Wedge' until we're formally returned to duty. The commander smiled. Or perhaps, 'Yes, Exalted One.' Or 'Yes, O envy of all Corellia.' Or-

Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.