“Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.” HeartProcessDangerousDutyTerribleNotionDangerous ThingsMalpractice Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.” PeopleLooksMightWould BeLeftSocialBehindsResponsibilityStepsModernDutyActivityResponsibleStriveNotionRealmsRejectsHierarchyDictionaryBeing ResponsibleRejectingSlackerSocial Hierarchy Author:Richard Linklater
“I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.” ThinkingShouldLittlesRealAgeUsedDecisionSeriousDutyTradeNotionProfessionMinistersMeritDelightfulBooksellers Author:William Stanley Jevons
“The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.” RightsDutyRelationNotionObligationFormerRelativeSubordinates Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.” LongAmericaEvilPayHellVirtueDutyCommitmentEnglandAbsolutesNotionPainfulKingdomsDefinedFranceHumanistCategoriesPerpetualEmbarrassingRulingBourgeoisMatchedDubiousHumanisticAnathemaPolemics Author:V. S. Pritchett
“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
“What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.” PeopleCountryUseGovernmentPoliticalLeftVirtueShareDutyDemocraticNotionSuperiorsVirtuousKnowledgeableDemocratic Country Author:Thomas Sowell
“In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.” ShouldStillsFactsSeemsFacesOrderHoursDutyAgreeInstrumentsDancingGood ThingsNotionMusicalBarsMannersPerformingGood ManShadeRegimesStrictCagesGood MannersDischargeCompulsoryMusical InstrumentsAdherence Author:Jasper Fforde