#duties

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Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.


Henrietta Szold


#duties #freed #perform #positive #them

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.


Marlene Dietrich


#could #delegate #dilemma #duties #either

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.


Humphry Davy


#duties #given #great #habitually #heart

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech]


John Steinbeck


#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

Do not focus your thoughts among the confused wheels of secondary causes, as -'O if this had been, this had not followed!' Look up to the master motion of the first wheel. In building, we see hewn stones and timbers under hammers and axes, yet the house in this beauty we do not see at the present, but it is in the mind of this builder. We also see unbroken clods, furrows, and stones, but we do not see the summer lilies, roses, and the beauty of a garden. Even so we do not presently see the outcome of God's decrees with his blessed purpose. It is hard to believe when his purpose is hidden and under the ground. Providence has a thousand keys to deliver his own even when all hope is gone. Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for him, and lay Christ's part on himself and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.


Samuel Rutherford


#god-s-sovereignty #beauty

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.


Andrew Wilkow


#personal-responsibility #rights #freedom

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, freedom and order--the social fabric begins to unravel. The rights explosion of the past three decades has taken us on a rapid descent to a culture without civility, decency, or even that degree of discipline necessary to maintain an advanced industrial civilization. Our cities are cesspools, our urban schools terrorist training camps, our legislatures brothels where rights are sold to the highest electoral bidder.


D.A. Carson


#freedom #individualism #rights #the-twentieth-century #freedom

At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life


Cayla Kluver


#duties #life #life

One's interest or need does not annul other's right.


Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri


#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #ethics #islam

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.


Henry Charles Carey


#duties #established #few #merely #protection