Best consequence & duty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.”

Thinking May Action Voice Particular Duty Consequence Silent

Author:Augustus Hare

“Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.”

Duty Conscience Consequence Swerve

Author:Benjamin Haydon

“A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.”

Important Duty Consequence Carrie

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's”

War Lord Duty Consequence Lord God

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.”

Men Believe Earth Suffering Duty Achievement Consequence Prison Prepared Conviction Worthwhile Be Prepared

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.”

Has Beens Mines Duty Consequence

Book:Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man

Source: Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man

“I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.”

“Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.”

Men Humans Wells Made States Natural Rights Duty Protect Consequence Crisis Human Rights Population Humanitarian Graves Primaries Violation Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.”

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Author:Hugh Sidey

“So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.”

World Two Causes Conditions This World Duty Consequence Tea Arrangements Pennies Inscrutable

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.”

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Author:Diana Gabaldon

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Life Is Asks Decision Moral Conditions Duty Consequence Philosophical Asking Renounce Life Is A Gift Thinking Person

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.”

Humans Action Liberty Accepting Duty Please Consequence Harm Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it”

Source: Writings

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”

Humans Technology Environment Duty Consequence Western Prosperity Accepted Surrender Invention Primitive Technological Arbitrary Imperatives Novelty Taboo Save Mother Earth Western Society

Author:Lewis Mumford

“We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.”

Pleasure Duty Ought Consequence Endeavor

Author:Samuel Johnson

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