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A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.
Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.
People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.
Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.
Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation (or perceived motivations) in anarchist politics: Duty and Joy. Like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black and white labels, ignoring the more realistic continuum of grays. Instead, think of these two motivations as the end points on a continuum, illuminating everything in between.
As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
Tell the truth. It's your duty to do so. It's up to them how they take in the information. Keep it real.
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
If you don__ do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don__ love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you concerning that.
If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.
You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
Be the hero of your children__ story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.