Home / Topics / Duty Quotes

Duty Quotes

Browse 4172 quotes about Duty.

Duty Quotes

“The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.”

Gone Democracy Rights Duty Democracies Have

Author:Fiona Shaw

“The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.”

Democracy Duty Honor Privilege Great Things Jury Jury Duty

Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

Firsts Home Practice Virtue Democracy Duty Voting Patriotic

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.”

People Ifs Important Democracy Duty Institutions Parliamentary Parliamentary Democracy

Author:John Allen Fraser

“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.”

“I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.”

People Democracy Duty Reconciliation Democracy Freedom

Author:Ayad Allawi

“Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

Firsts Democracy Duty Voting

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.”

Government Opinion Democracy Duty Organization Method Believer Experiments Score Manifest Passages Mechanism Irrelevant Public Opinion Suffrage American Government

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values, our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.”

Believe Values I Believe Space Liberty Democracy Duty Commitment Tolerance Defined Openness Exclusive Civics Civic Duty Internationalism Shared Values

Author:David Blunkett

“We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.”

Humans Enough Faces Form Responsibility Democracy Rights Duty Degrees Silent Injustice Human Rights Guilty Prophet Activist Corresponding Rabbi Perpetrators

Author:Ray McGovern

“Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.”

Self Law Certain Social Democracy Duty Type Conflict Behavior Abandon Contracts Democracies Have Social Contract

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.”

People Thinking Steps Democracy Duty Office Normal Lawyer Accused Accusation Being Accused

Author:Jacques Verges

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”