quotations about duty
What is the task of all higher education? To turn men into machines. What are the means? Man must learn to be bored. How is that accomplished? By means of the concept of duty.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Twilight of the Idols
Forbidden fruit a flavor has
That lawful orchards mock;
How luscious lies the pea within
The pod that Duty locks!
EMILY DICKINSON
"Forbidden Fruit"
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think, and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure -- as a mere automaton of duty?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Antichrist
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
What moves the Greek warrior to deeds of heroism ... is not a sense of duty as we understand it ... duty towards others: it is rather duty towards himself.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he'd always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.
C.S. LEWIS
Letters of C.S. Lewis
Do your full duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
GEORGE S. PATTON
The Patton Papers 1885-1940
O hard, when love and duty clash!
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
The Princess
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles,", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Caesar and Cleopatra
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
The night is falling, the time has come
Your duty is calling, a distant drum
BZN
"When Will We Meet Again", A Symphonic Night
For duty, duty must be done;
The rule applies to everyone.
W.S. GILBERT
Ruddigore
Pure duty is the essential moment of relating itself, qua universality, to others.
GEORG W. F. HEGEL
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Every right carries with it a corresponding duty.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
Young India, March 26, 1931
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
When one duty start is when one duty stop
One nine to five, one five to twelve o'clock
DAMIAN MARLEY
"Beautiful"
Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Horace
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Dirty Hands