Duties Quotes

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette

Government, Rights, Sacred

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Equality, Happy, Justice

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Father, Understand, Either

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy

Life, Great, Kindness

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Truth, True

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi

Forget, Remember, Rights

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
P. J. O'Rourke

Training, Soldiers, Unfair

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Means, Rights, Marry

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana

Fight, Children, Human

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel

Time, Give, Attention

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge

Important, Someone, Others

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Medicine, Masses, Physician

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Life, End, Woman

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson

Impossible, Means, Boss

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley

Faith, Knowledge, Him

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling

Everyone, Support, Research

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant

Religion, Divine, Commands

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Good, Women, Men

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
Charles Babbage

Time, Science, Powerful

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott

Life, Reason, Perfection

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Eric Liu

End, Movement, Laws

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy

Change, Nothing, Real

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Medicine, Masses, Physician

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot

Marriage, Help, Divorce

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Charlotte Bronte

Christian, Madam

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Laurence Sterne

Prayer, Easy, Sweetest

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
Helena Bonham Carter

Time, Heart, Children

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith

Life, Important, Among

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Alfred North Whitehead

Business, Future, Science

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