[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.
Edward AbbeyTag: writers virtues duty critics-of-society
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.
George MacDonaldA man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: duty
And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.
AnonymousTag: fear difficulty duty allah divorce source
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri-Frédéric AmielWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George OrwellTag: truth intelligence progress philosophy duty
Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.
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Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.
Jonathan SacksTag: morality democracy economics law duty free-market
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
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