#duty

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#being #beside #duty #felt #following

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. ↗

— King Albert II

#endangered #fills #imposes #independence #itself

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#blessings #bound #certainly #christian #duty

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#apprehended #danger #diligence #duty #having

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#deserve #doing #duty #ought #our

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#different #different way #duty #i #i think

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bars #behind #companies #corporations #duty

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

#defending #does #duty #guilt #itself

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

#ballot #both #choice #commonly #duty

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#heaped #men #never-ending #suffering #sufferings