All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Duty”

“Our first duty is not to be poor.”
“Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.”
“Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.”
“Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.”
“Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.”
“Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.”
“War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.”
“It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.”

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