Fidel Castro Quotes

Beneficence is a duty.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.

Moderation in the pursuit of truth is no virtue. Vigilance in the defense of public ethics is no vice.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

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.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.