“If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.” IfsWorldWayNeedsMeanSpiritualSpiritHouseHeavenAcceptingMoralDutyFoundationPreparedAffairSettlingCracksSpiritual LifeCollapseBe PreparedCivicsInner Life Book:Heaven and hell Source: Heaven and hell
“Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.” WellsEndsFeelingsAbleAcceptingRolesTeachSeeingMankindPositionDutyMirrorsIncludingBelieverProphetSocialistContradictoryBrowsHereticFrivolousOratorsDodgeScepticGadflies Author:Jacques Barzun
“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.” ShouldHandsAcceptingStruggleKnowingDutyAnd LoveSuicideOneselfConquestLife And LoveFascistsKnowing Nothing Author:Benito Mussolini
“Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.” AcceptingAtheismAcceptanceDutyPositive AtheismMaintenanceFreedom Of Religion Author:Joseph Leon Blau
“Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.” IfsLongHandsSocialResponsibilityAcceptingDutySocial ResponsibilityHand In Hand Author:John Foster Dulles
“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.” NeedsSelfFactsGovernmentTurnsFreedomAcceptingWillingDutyAuthorityAbuseAffairSurrenderLocalsNeighborhoodRemedyPaymentCorrectionsTreasuryDischargeSelf-governmentSupervisionTribunalsBartering Author:Calvin Coolidge
“A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.” AcceptingFiveDutyReturnMercySickIslamFuneralInvitationsSalutations Author:Elijah Muhammad
“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.” GodGovernmentAmericaChoicesJesusChristResponsibilityAcceptingRightsAcceptanceDutyDependsOughtDisciplineSpeechTiredChaosPrivilegeConvictionHearingCompromiseCitizenshipDemonstratingDisintegrationPlainnessRights And Privileges Author:Peter Marshall
“It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.” WorldDifferentFightingOpportunityBeliefAcceptingPathDutyAround The WorldRight PathDifferent Beliefs Author:Abdul Sattar Abu Risha