“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.” ChildrenPlayMotherValuesAsksNationsRolesBuildingDutyIntegrityDramaEqualCommitmentIndiaConstitutionComplexesLoyaltyNation Building Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.” MenWorldEndsOrderNaturalRolesRightsConditionsDutyRevolutionEqualDrivingPerformingRebelliousMaterialisticRoles In LifeMaterialistic World Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi
“Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.” WellsEndsFeelingsAbleAcceptingRolesTeachSeeingMankindPositionDutyMirrorsIncludingBelieverProphetSocialistContradictoryBrowsHereticFrivolousOratorsDodgeScepticGadflies Author:Jacques Barzun
“The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.” SocialJusticePrinciplesRolesRightsDutyConceptsAdvantageDefinedAppropriateInterpretationDivisionConceptionDefiningRights And Duties Book:A Theory of Justice Source: A Theory of Justice
“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
“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.” TwoEnoughPlayMotherStrongRolesWifeDutyEasierExerciseAuthorityContraryObligationStrong EnoughWidowsGood MotherGood Wife Author:Honore de Balzac
“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” MenWorldHumansChildrenPurposeArtistLosesCitiesRolesDarknessForeverMinesDutySightForestsConquerWildernessFedsPreciseConquestDwellingSwampsDrainedDwelling Place Author:James A. Baldwin
“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.” KnowsChildrenStatesFormNationsParentNaturalLeaderRolesDutyHabitCitizensRelationFundamentalsWho You AreNeighborAriseOur FamilyNeighborhoodWorkplaceLinkedParent Child Author:Epictetus
“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.” PersonsTurnsResultsBrainRolesGoneDutyDrinkDrugBehaviorSurvivalAll ThingsRewardsAddictionCommandGamblingChemicalsMatesTriggersMotorMessengersDrug AddictionDrug AddictImbalanceDopamineOvereating Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.” CountryPlayHomeGovernmentCultureCommunityMoralRolesGreaterDutyCriticsObligationMoral ObligationMoral Duty Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader