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Duty Quotes
Doing what's owed, quietly and consistently.
Several lines here connect duty to public life — holding elected leaders accountable through voting, or a president's duty to protect national security. See Responsibility quotes for a closer look at that theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
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A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am available to play in foreign leagues only when not required on national duty.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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- Nov 07, 2020