#Duties Quotes

“To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.”

“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”

“In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.”

“No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.”

“If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.”

“Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.”

“The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.”

“The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.”

“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”