“Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.” ProgressModernCenturyDutyVictoryFitDemandOur TimeFormulasDaringAirplane Author:Claude Debussy
“Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.” FirstsImportantIdeasCenturyCollegeExpressionDutyProtectCensorshipSpeakersFree ExpressionNewsworthy Author:Greg Lukianoff
“May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?” MayEndsNationsCommunityCommonRightsCenturyBuildingDutyHigherRecognitionPrimariesStrifeQuarrelsRealisationBuilding Up Author:Adolf Hitler
“I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.” WayWritingHardLastsLiteratureCenturyDutySacredJournalismExtrasCherishReviewsDiamondCrownsSparkling Author:Florence King
“Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.” CenturyPolicyDutyArmsGunEnglandPoliceGun Control19th CenturyDisarmament Author:Don Kates
“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.” YearsMaySoulLastsOpportunityJesusWinningChristWalksPathOur LivesJourneyCenturyDutyConflictDifficultyDetermineTrialsHillsHeightMarchNew YearLast YearClosestFellowshipSunnyNew Opportunity Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.” ShouldFirstsScienceFunForceCenturyDutyTasteTwentiesThroatDragKicking Author:George Porter
“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.” FirstsChildrenSelfStatesHelpingIndividualParentGoalCasesClearModernCenturyDutyConflictCommitmentTestsTreatmentSelf ControlPuritan17th Century Author:C. Sommerville
“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.” MenWorldGivingHandsCoursesCenturyColorDutyPleaseCivilizationBenefitsInjusticeDebtCrueltyBenevolenceAtonement Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!” WayBelieveChildrenCoursesNextI BelieveCenturyDutyBearsNotionBurdenAdmirationComplaintsPompous Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition