I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Kenzo Tange

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
Jacques Barzun

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
William Jennings Bryan

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Andrew Johnson

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
King Albert II

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
King Albert II

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Martin Scorsese

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
John James Audubon

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .
Swami Sivananda

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Nick Cave

They held it their duty to live but for their country.
William Godwin

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
John Burns

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Lester B. Pearson

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Adolf Hitler

Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel