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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”
Bertrand Russell
“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.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
John Rockefeller
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
John Rockefeller
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.”
Alan Watts
“Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I think the first duty of society is justice.”
Alexander Hamilton
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich
