Top 1200 Moral Duty Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Duty without love is deplorable.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Love is the only duty that we know.

We have a duty to face racism and to fight it.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

Let every lion do his duty.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Look at my record. I have done my duty.

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

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

The first duty of love is to listen.

I feel my duty is to make music.

There is no moment without some duty.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

There is not a moment without some duty.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

The true source of rights is duty.

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.