Ferdinand Lassalle Quotes

Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Diety.

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.

I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

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.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

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.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

There is no moment without some duty.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.