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“I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.”

Feels War Done Crime Duty Refuse Guilty Organs War Crimes Himmler

Author:Ernst Kaltenbrunner

“Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.”

Source: Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on atheistic communism: official Vatican text

“Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.”

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.”

Ifs Has Beens Fall Common Responsibility Principles Duty Europe Refuse France Bridges Division Southern Solidarity Egotism

Author:Francois Hollande

“When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.”

Doe Different Political Courses Objects Duty Demand Refuse Criticize Disagree Dislike Citizenship Political Power Rendering Incumbents

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”

Science Natural Sin Duty Authority Highest Blind Refuse Acknowledge Skepticism Blind Faith

Book:Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

Forget Duty Sorrow Solitude Refuse Wounds Heal Grieving Cherish Funeral Affliction Divorced Bereavement

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume