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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
— Millard Fillmore
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
— Marlene Dietrich
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
— Confucius
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
— George Eliot
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
— Jules Michelet
The gods were there to do the duties of a megaphone, because who else would people listen to?
— Terry Pratchett
From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties.
— Russell M. Nelson
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
— Josiah Quincy
The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.
— Jean-Pierre De Caussade
Sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.
— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.
— Sydney Thompson Dobell
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!
— Leon Bourgeois
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
— Nigel Farage
Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough.
— Elizabeth Carlton
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
— James Russell Lowell
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You know I have duties--we both have duties--before which feeling must be sacrificed.
— George Eliot
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
— Cecily McMillan
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
— Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
— Zadie Smith
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
— James K. Polk
Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.
— George W. Bush
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.
— Jonathan Kellerman
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
— Dorothea Dix
It is our mission to forestall our duties
— Alexandre Dumas
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
— Vicente Fox
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.
— Laurance Labadie
To sweat in some duties of religion, and freeze in others is the symptom of a disordered Christian.
— Thomas Watson
What are your duties?" said Vimes. "To Serve The Public Trust, Protect The Innocent, And Seriously Prod Buttock, Sir," said Dorfl.
— Terry Pratchett
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel incompetent to perform duties ... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
— Andrew Johnson
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is ready to see to its fulfilment
— Sunday Adelaja
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.[On Water] — Guy De Maupassant
Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
— William George Jordan
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
— Harold Brodkey
You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you?
— Louisa May Alcott
The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.
— John Jortin
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
— Henrik Ibsen
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
— Thomas Merton
All duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle.
— Immanuel Kant
No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.
— Swami Vivekananda
You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying ...
— Emily Bronte
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
— Ralph Barton Perry
A call to duty, a call for service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
— Frederick William Borden
It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings ... without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.
— Susa Young Gates
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
— Marquis De Lafayette
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
— Samuel Richardson
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
— Otto Weininger
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
— Albert Camus
Each position has its corresponding duties.
— George Eliot
When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
We should however not seek to abdicate our duties to God, asking God to come and do what we are supposed to do.
— Sunday Adelaja
It's also not unknown for junior co-pilots of prime low fares carriers to sleep overnight in cars between duties.
— Glenn Meade
I am very defective in all duties ... In prayer I wander and am formal ... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
— William Carey
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
— Gouverneur Morris
Happy the man who knows his duties!
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.
— Mary Allsebrook
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
— Indira Gandhi
