A Quote by Russell Kirk
Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.
We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
If the privileged in society can use that privilege to privilege others, then the consequences can be tremendous.
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.
All players have equal duties and merits and share the reward and sometimes the blame.
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.
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