“Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.” MovingChoicesNationsChallengesDutyPropertyEndureProtectionDespiteTransitionPhases Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.” YearsImportantChoicesFoundSoundPresidentInterestPrinciplesRolesTalentDutyStandardsCourtSupremeFulfillingSupreme CourtBehalfSeriousnessReducingJudicialWhimDeferencePertinentAbdication Author:George Will
“One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can't be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.” IfsKnowsMayPersonsStoriesHomeChoicesLosesAbilityPracticeTakenDutyPossessionArguingLoved Ones Author:Sheena Iyengar
“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.” IfsWritingWellsHandsChoicesFailingPoetDutyObligationWell BeingMinoritiesOblivion Author:Joseph Brodsky
“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.” MenAbleFacesChoicesInfluenceDutyClaimsLaysClimateFace To FaceBlundersLocality Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.” LittlesSelfCharacterChoicesGoalDecisionPrinciplesDutyDisciplineResponseDeedsReactionsTemptationCherishSubmitSelf DisciplineHammersMoldConfrontationShortcutsCall Of DutySmall Deeds Author:Sidney Greenberg
“In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.” GivingKidsSchoolYoungChoicesParentDutyAdultsFoundationYoung AdultOur FamilySundayTeensSunday School Author:Gretchen Carlson
“Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.” IfsThinkingWellsPersonsDoeStillsHelpingFeelingsActionHumanityChoicesRealizingCasesDutyOughtSorrowStriveMotiveAbsentSympathetic Author:Allen W. Wood
“I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.” PeopleThinkingUseFormChoicesForceJusticeDutyArmyPoliceGuardianFreedom Of Choice Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.” MenMeanChoicesOpinionExpressionDutyVotePrivilegeAnother ManBallotsSuffrageRight To VoteNouns Author:Ambrose Bierce
“Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.” EndsChoicesProcessDutyCookingLoadHousewifeDishwashers Author:Julian Baggini
“The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice” SeemsDesireChoicesAnimalParticularDutyTragedyRational Author:Mortimer Adler