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“I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.”

Writing Humans Belief Duty Creatures All Things Conviction Shortcomings Thorough Drawbacks

Book:Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

Source: Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

“I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.”

Ideas Belief Atheism Duty Higher Positive Atheism Consideration Evangelical Present Time

Author:George Eliot

“Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.”

“I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.”

“I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.”

Belief Interest Duty Benefits

Author:E. W. Howe

“Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.”

World Mind Character Belief Given Duty Intellectualism

Book:Some Problems of Philosophy

Source: Some Problems of Philosophy

“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.”

World Different Fighting Opportunity Belief Accepting Path Duty Around The World Right Path Different Beliefs

Author:Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

“Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.”

Mind Country Mother Belief Duty Limits Subordinates Habitual Mother Country

Book:Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson