Christiane Amanpour Quotes

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well or creating representation or visibility for something that's really lacking, it can really save lives.

People would go from village to village with their books in a time of poverty and disease. They would get people around them, and for an hour, these storytellers would change people's lives. I'd always thought I was a reincarnation of that. That's who I want to be.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

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

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

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

It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Any Christian constitutionalist who retreats from this battle jeopardizes his life here and hereafter. Seldom has so much responsibility hung on so few, so heavily; but our numbers are increasing, and we who have been warned have a responsibility to warn our neighbor.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.