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quotes by topic Duty

" Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. "

Barbara Ehrenreich

Duty , Patriotism , Dissent , Hell , Rebellion

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

Duty , Temptation , Whisper

" When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. "

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Duty

" As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. "

Experience , Duty

" My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life. "

Suffering , End , Duty

" The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation "

Father , Man , Duty , Wife , Woman

" There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others "

Man , Men , Fear , Duty , Suicide

" There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. "

Right , Duty , Consequences

" No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. "

Saint Augustine

Nothing , Duty

" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "

People , Duty , Rights

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