When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

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.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.