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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton
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"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel
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"duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer." »Thomas Carlyle
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"duty without love is deplorable.
duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye." »Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
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"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period" »Antonio Gramsci
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"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough." »William Zinsser
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"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time." »Sydney Harris
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"The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air." »Julie Arabi
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"Every child deserves a home and love. period." »Dave Thomas
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"The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside." »Pearl Bailey
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"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits - either now or in the future. period." »Barack Obama
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"The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun." »Author Unknown
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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere." »Pablo Picasso
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism." »John Calhoun
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"Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory ‘Cosmos’ classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality." »Henry Steele Commager
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"Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
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"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one..." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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