| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Gör det jag ska. Är duktig. Tänker rätt saker. Fantastiskt vilken åsna man är ibland. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Människorna är dömda till att antingen vara slavar under plikten eller slavar under makten. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Plikt är en handling som frambringar mer gott i världen än något annat beslut. | George Edward Moore |
| Plikt är en handling som krävs, det vill säga görs ovillkorligt nödvändig av förnuftet. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Plikter uppstår genom att man inte säger nej i tid. | Wolfgang Herbst |
| Plikter är vad man fordrar av andra, inte vad man själv gör. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Vad är plikt? Dagens krav. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. | Etty Hilsum |
| Duty is ours; results are God's | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) |
| No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. | Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880) |
| It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. | Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) |
| Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence | Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) |
| Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. | Mencius |
| I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. | Rose F. Kennedy (1890-1995) |
| Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent | William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) |
| I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. | Mary Worley Montagu |
| Do your duty today and repent tomorrow | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Duty is ours; results are God's | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| The first duty of a government is to give education to the people | Simón Bolívar |
| Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| I think the first duty of society is justice | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam | William Beveridge (1879-1963) |
| The highest duty is to respect authority | Leo XIII (1810-) |
| Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort | Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) |
| Best way to get rid of your duties is to discharge them | William McCall (1954-) |
| Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee | William McCall (1954-) |
| There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence | Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) |
| Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent | William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) |
| We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke | Robert Herrick (1868-) |
| Duty is not collective; it is personal | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| He who defines duty for himself is his own master. | Dick Cheatham |
| When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Duty is the sublimest word in our language. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |