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“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.”

Bigs Today Film Young Next Actors Realizing Duty Industry Directors Late Approach Hollywood Silent University Cinema Vague Young Actors Hollywood Films Silent Films

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.”

Sin Duty Silent Protest

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.”

Names Wish Duty Goes On Performances Silent Newspapers Strict

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.”

Thinking May Action Voice Particular Duty Consequence Silent

Author:Augustus Hare

“Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.”

People Ifs Wells Would Be Speak Knowing Duty Silent Privilege Speaks Out

Author:Rachel Carson

“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

“To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny”

Answers Duty Silent Not Giving Up Persevere Calumny Calumny Is

Book:Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

Source: Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.”