Duty Quotes - Page 33

• As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

  Jonas Mekas

  Confused, Eye, Way

  "iPOP | This Week on the Scene: NYFF, Wall Street, “Dirty Girl” & More" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Understanding, Literature, Loyal

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press

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• The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

  Richard Wagner

  Ability, Tempo, Conductor

  Richard Wagner (1887). “Wagner on Conducting”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loyalty, Artist, Self

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Thoughtful, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Self, Police

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• If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Doe, Lord

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

  John Flavel

  Mean, Thinking, Soul

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.175, Hartland Publications

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• No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!

  Victoria Woodhull

  Girl, Lying, Divorce

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• IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

  Fritz Kreisler

  Confused, War, Army

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Jerusalem, States

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• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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• It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Teaching, Choices, Parent

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• Duty without love is deplorable.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Love Is, Without Love

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• If you feel alone and you've got nowhere to run to, always remember that your family is always there for you. It's their duty.

  Shannon Leto

  Running, Remember, Our Family

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• From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

  Russ Carnahan

  Important, Defense, Natural

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• Liberty is a duty, not a right.

  Benito Mussolini

  Liberty

  "Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism". Book by Tim Redman, p. 114, Speech on the 5th anniversary of the Combat Leagues (March 24, 1924), 1991.

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Republic, Sacred

  American Daily Advertiser, August 28, 1794.

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.

  Swami Veda Bharati

  Spiritual, Pain, Ambition

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• There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Hands, Trials, May

  Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.510, Ravenio Books

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• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Wall, Fear, War

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• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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