Duties Quotes
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.
Albert Camus
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos
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Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
Noah Webster
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.
Toussaint Louverture
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The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules Michelet
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann Hesse
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Henrik Ibsen
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And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
Thomas Carlyle
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Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.
Edward Thomson
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Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
