Best duty & regard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.”

“What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.”

People May Political Voice Ability Pay Duty Resources Connections Regard Kingdoms Ministers Considering Disposition Arena Acquaintance Rectitude

Author:Charles James Fox

“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.”

Men World Littles Doe Real Eye Left Sides Party Cases Crime Duty Regard Hated Consistency Inconsistency

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.”

Should Long Important States Duty Concern Roots Regard Cooperation Fascism Aggression Strengthening Vigilance

Author:Vyacheslav Molotov

“When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.”

Women Talking Duty Regard Raises Delight Appearance Storm Captured

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.”

Believe Heart Kind Problem I Believe Process Teach Duty Sorrow Solutions Regard Deeper All Kinds

Book:My Study Fire: First Series

Source: My Study Fire: First Series

“Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.”

Masters Duty Regard Troublesome

Author:Mazo de la Roche

“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”

Prayer Duty Regard Privilege Believer Dullness

Author:Adolph Saphir

“The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.”

Country Christian Courses Nations Church Religious Duty Regard Gods Will Curse Bless Duty To God

Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”

Purpose Evil Brother Duty Habit Regard Associates Drunkards Teetotalers Weaning

Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.”

Ifs Trying War Home Faces Names Doors Son Duty Ought Treats Regard Coming Home Unworthy Your Son Shirk Renegades

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.”

People Should Country Whole Law Justice Attitude Practice Mankind Cry Duty Training Tradition Dignity Bases Regard Injustice Profession Discrimination Honorable Unjust Justice For All

Author:Nelson Mandela

“It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people ... our African brothers and sisters.”

People Giving Leader Support Brother Duty Mass Ordinary Regard Hitting Brothers And Sisters Sanctions

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.”

“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”

Men Mind Feelings Religion Strong Understanding Pleasure Cases Duty Drink Members Regard Casts Neglect Disorder Appetite Indulge Civil Society Strong Drink

Book:journal

Source: journal

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”

“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”

Ifs Reason Natural Church Powerful Existence Power Impossible Duty Regard Catholic Catholicism Dogma Existence Of God Roman Catholic

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

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