“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.” MindFirstsHumansHeartSaidTwoStatesPoliticalHumanityNationsUnderstandingSawsShareHuman NatureDutyMy HeartMetsConcernUniversalUnionsIncludingEightCampaignsPresidentialContinuingSeventiesInvolvementFirst LadyPolitical LifePresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.” WorldFeelsChildrenWisdomPassionNatureCommunityLeadershipEducationResponsibilityFamilyHistoryGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyHealthDutyEthicsStrategyHuman RightsIndividualityIdeologyOur WorldInherentHumaneCivilityIntangibleHumane Society Author:Masiela Lusha
“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.” ThinkingMenMadeEndsWholeOrderHuman NatureDutyOughtDignityMeritThoughtful Author:Blaise Pascal
“Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.” PeopleLife IsSufferingHuman NatureDutyDespairTragedyFilledManageJuryJury Duty Author:Woody Allen
“My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.” HumansMaySelfChristianPurposeJesusSinHuman NatureDutyForgivenessForgivingUncomfortableAccomplishedSelf CenteredOffenders Author:Gordon Dalbey
“...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.” MenHumansAbilityPracticeMysteryHuman NatureDutyBlessingDegreesPraiseEvery ManHonourAcquisitionHelpersValourMystery Of Love Author:Socrates
“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.” ThinkingNeedsHumansSelfMatterReasonEnoughHelpingSituationMoralCasesSpecialHuman NatureParticularDutyJudgmentTestsRegardFocusedAriseAgentsExceptionPreferenceTemptedMaximsCanonMoral Judgment Author:Allen W. Wood
“This position will not be disputed so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct, or that the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds... would on the contrary deter him from the undertaking, when he foresaw that he must quit the scene before he could accomplish the work.” MindHumansLongDesirePassionInterestMankindSecurityHuman NaturePositionDutySceneFameRewardsAccomplishContraryQuittingStrongestRulingIncentivesFidelityUndertakingsRuling Passion Author:Alexander Hamilton
“Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.” ThinkingNeedsMeanActionEffortWiseHuman NatureDutyRevengeImpulseDoseSuperhuman Book:Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.” HumansMayRaceChristianityRightsInfluenceHuman NatureDutyLaborBurdenObligationOppressionHuman RaceReliefIndispensableGodly Author:Benjamin Banneker
“Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.” ImportantSelfSometimesInterestHuman NatureHonestyDutyBehaviorSeekingLoyaltyMotiveSelf RespectDriversSolidarityAltruismSelf Interest Author:Ha-Joon Chang