#duty — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #duty, aggregated by home.social.
-
A quotation from Richard Steele
It is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-03-01), The Spectator, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21332…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #assertion #civilrights #cowardice #duty #expectation #rights #entitlement
-
A quotation from Richard Steele
It is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-03-01), The Spectator, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21332…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #assertion #civilrights #cowardice #duty #expectation #rights #entitlement
-
A quotation from Richard Steele
It is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-03-01), The Spectator, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21332…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #assertion #civilrights #cowardice #duty #expectation #rights #entitlement
-
A quotation from Richard Steele
It is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-03-01), The Spectator, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21332…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #assertion #civilrights #cowardice #duty #expectation #rights #entitlement
-
A quotation from Richard Steele
It is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-03-01), The Spectator, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21332…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #assertion #civilrights #cowardice #duty #expectation #rights #entitlement
-
The Men Without Monuments: A Biblical Perspective
The men remembered by monuments did not spend their lives demanding recognition. They earned it. Scripture teaches the same principle: God honors the humble and opposes the proud. In an age obsessed with self-promotion, that lesson may be more important than ever.https://polymathchristian.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/the-men-without-monuments-a-biblical-perspective/
-
The Men Without Monuments: A Biblical Perspective
The men remembered by monuments did not spend their lives demanding recognition. They earned it. Scripture teaches the same principle: God honors the humble and opposes the proud. In an age obsessed with self-promotion, that lesson may be more important than ever.https://polymathchristian.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/the-men-without-monuments-a-biblical-perspective/
-
The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court determined on Thursday that individuals subject to military service in Russia are not automatically eligible... https://news.osna.fm/?p=48177 | #news #conscripts #court #denies #duty
-
The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court determined on Thursday that individuals subject to military service in Russia are not automatically eligible... https://news.osna.fm/?p=48177 | #news #conscripts #court #denies #duty
-
The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court determined on Thursday that individuals subject to military service in Russia are not automatically eligible... https://news.osna.fm/?p=48177 | #news #conscripts #court #denies #duty
-
The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court determined on Thursday that individuals subject to military service in Russia are not automatically eligible... https://news.osna.fm/?p=48177 | #news #conscripts #court #denies #duty
-
It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.
The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work
-
It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.
The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work
-
A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)More about this quote: wist.info/stanton-elizabeth-ca…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethcadystanton #accountability #children #duty #filialduty #gratitude #obligation #offspring #parenting #parents
-
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
-
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
-
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
-
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
-
Fuel duty under review, Keir Starmer says
US attacks Iranian minelayers US Central Command released video of strikes on Iranian minelayers Security incident closes streets…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #duty #fuel #Iran #keir #latest #review #says #starmer #UK #under #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/429178/ -
A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #advice #busybody #control #counsel #duty #imposition #interference #others #perspective #requirements #responsibility #selfdirection
-
A quotation from George Orwell
By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled “good” or “bad.” But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/16966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civicduty #classification #devotion #duty #evil #good #goodandevil #ingroup #jingoism #moralduty #nation #nationalism #nationality #outgroup #population #racism #stereotype #tribalism #usvsthem
-
A quotation from George Orwell
By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled “good” or “bad.” But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/16966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civicduty #classification #devotion #duty #evil #good #goodandevil #ingroup #jingoism #moralduty #nation #nationalism #nationality #outgroup #population #racism #stereotype #tribalism #usvsthem
-
On July 25, 1956, the Andrea Doria collided with another ship. The Captain stood his ground. He gave the evacuation order and stayed aboard until the last moments.
No heroics. Just duty.🔹 Leadership is presence, not performance.
🔹 Responsibility is not leaving before the mission is done.
🔹 Legacy is built when no one is watching.Today, when we talk about leadership, we should remember those who didn’t raise their voices—but stood their ground.
#AndreaDoria #Leadership #Duty -
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”*…
The tax-collector’s office, Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1565–1636)From Colin Gorrie, how our world also shapes our language– and in the example he uses, also our sense of duty…
Debt is old. It’s older than writing. The first writing system, Sumerian cuneiform, evolved out of marks used for accounting. From the beginning, writing was used to track who had what, and, crucially, who owed what to whom.
The influence of debt also extends to language more generally. In many languages, including English, the experiences of owing and being owed provided the blueprint for more abstract notions of duty, necessity, and obligation.
Words meaning ‘to owe’ developed into abstract expressions of obligation so often that it’s useful to have a name for the phenomenon. I call it the owe-to-ought pipeline, named after one of the clearest cases of this development. The word ought is, in fact, nothing but the old past tense form of owe.
This pipeline shows us something about how language changes and develops over time. First, it shows how easily words can slide from one meaning to another, although that’ll be no surprise to anyone who has watched the development of slang over a few decades.
The more important lesson owe-to-ought teaches us has to do with where grammar comes from. Wait, don’t run away! This isn’t a grammar lesson. What I want to show you is how languages create grammar — a collection of abstract meanings such as plurality and verb tense — out of the concrete realities of our shared human experience.
And what human experience is more common than debt?
This is the story of three families of words: owe, should, and the word debt itself. Understand these three families, and you’ll understand how the English language built its way of expressing duty, necessity, and obligation — not to mention guilt and sin — out of the raw materials of accounting…
A case study in how our vocabulary (and our sense of obligation) evolved: “How debt shaped the way we speak,” from @colingorrie.bsky.social.
* Rita Mae Brown
###
As we acknowledge our antecedents, we might recall that it was on this date in 1950 that Rose Marie Reid was granted one of her several patents, US2535018A. A swimwear designer and manufacturer, Reid has already been the first swimsuit designer to use inner brassieres, tummy-tuck panels, stay-down legs, elastic banding, brief skirts, and foundation garments in swimwear, and the first designer to introduce dress sizes in swimwear, designing swimwear for multiple sizes and types of bodies, rather than just producing one standard size. This patent was, in its way, even more revolutionary– it was for a one-piece bathing suit made of elastic fabric “embodying a novel construction for causing it to snugly fit the body of a wearer in a flattering manner [that would] shape and support portions of the body of the wearer in areas of the bust and abdomen in a flattering manner without discomfort or impedance to free movements of the body.” The elastic fabric and elastic securing bands were designed to enable the garment to be put on without having buttoned openings which would “detract from the appearance of the garment.”
Reid assigned her patent to her company and enjoyed huge sales success, in part due to her impact in Hollywood and the motion picture industry. Famous screen actresses (e,g, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Rhonda Fleming) wore her swimsuits. And her suits also appeared in several California beach party films from the late 1950s and the early 1960s, including Gidget, Muscle Beach Party, and Where the Boys Are.
The “Glittering Metallic Lamé” suit worn by Rita Hayworth to publicize Gilda (source) #bathingSuit #bathingSuits #ColinGorrie #culture #debt #duty #etymology #history #JaneRussell #language #linguisitics #MarilynMonroe #obligation #RhondaFleming #RitaHayworth #RitaMarieReid #swimsuit #swimwear #Technology -
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”*…
The tax-collector’s office, Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1565–1636)From Colin Gorrie, how our world also shapes our language– and in the example he uses, also our sense of duty…
Debt is old. It’s older than writing. The first writing system, Sumerian cuneiform, evolved out of marks used for accounting. From the beginning, writing was used to track who had what, and, crucially, who owed what to whom.
The influence of debt also extends to language more generally. In many languages, including English, the experiences of owing and being owed provided the blueprint for more abstract notions of duty, necessity, and obligation.
Words meaning ‘to owe’ developed into abstract expressions of obligation so often that it’s useful to have a name for the phenomenon. I call it the owe-to-ought pipeline, named after one of the clearest cases of this development. The word ought is, in fact, nothing but the old past tense form of owe.
This pipeline shows us something about how language changes and develops over time. First, it shows how easily words can slide from one meaning to another, although that’ll be no surprise to anyone who has watched the development of slang over a few decades.
The more important lesson owe-to-ought teaches us has to do with where grammar comes from. Wait, don’t run away! This isn’t a grammar lesson. What I want to show you is how languages create grammar — a collection of abstract meanings such as plurality and verb tense — out of the concrete realities of our shared human experience.
And what human experience is more common than debt?
This is the story of three families of words: owe, should, and the word debt itself. Understand these three families, and you’ll understand how the English language built its way of expressing duty, necessity, and obligation — not to mention guilt and sin — out of the raw materials of accounting…
A case study in how our vocabulary (and our sense of obligation) evolved: “How debt shaped the way we speak,” from @colingorrie.bsky.social.
* Rita Mae Brown
###
As we acknowledge our antecedents, we might recall that it was on this date in 1950 that Rose Marie Reid was granted one of her several patents, US2535018A. A swimwear designer and manufacturer, Reid has already been the first swimsuit designer to use inner brassieres, tummy-tuck panels, stay-down legs, elastic banding, brief skirts, and foundation garments in swimwear, and the first designer to introduce dress sizes in swimwear, designing swimwear for multiple sizes and types of bodies, rather than just producing one standard size. This patent was, in its way, even more revolutionary– it was for a one-piece bathing suit made of elastic fabric “embodying a novel construction for causing it to snugly fit the body of a wearer in a flattering manner [that would] shape and support portions of the body of the wearer in areas of the bust and abdomen in a flattering manner without discomfort or impedance to free movements of the body.” The elastic fabric and elastic securing bands were designed to enable the garment to be put on without having buttoned openings which would “detract from the appearance of the garment.”
Reid assigned her patent to her company and enjoyed huge sales success, in part due to her impact in Hollywood and the motion picture industry. Famous screen actresses (e,g, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Rhonda Fleming) wore her swimsuits. And her suits also appeared in several California beach party films from the late 1950s and the early 1960s, including Gidget, Muscle Beach Party, and Where the Boys Are.
The “Glittering Metallic Lamé” suit worn by Rita Hayworth to publicize Gilda (source) #bathingSuit #bathingSuits #ColinGorrie #culture #debt #duty #etymology #history #innovation #JaneRussell #language #linguisitics #MarilynMonroe #obligation #RhondaFleming #RitaHayworth #RoseMarieReid #swimsuit #swimwear #Technology -
Iowa restaurants could be impacted by tariffs on Italian pasta https://www.diningandcooking.com/2379801/iowa-restaurants-could-be-impacted-by-tariffs-on-italian-pasta/ #AMES #ArkRestaurant #Barilla #commerce #company #duty #FinalDetermination #IowaRestaurant #Italia #Italian #ItalianFood #ItalianPasta #italiano #italy #JamesLacona #MostPasta #Noah #Pasta #Restaurants #supply #Tariff #tariffs #trump #🥛
-
Iowa restaurants could be impacted by tariffs on Italian pasta https://www.diningandcooking.com/2379801/iowa-restaurants-could-be-impacted-by-tariffs-on-italian-pasta/ #AMES #ArkRestaurant #Barilla #commerce #company #duty #FinalDetermination #IowaRestaurant #Italia #Italian #ItalianFood #ItalianPasta #italiano #italy #JamesLacona #MostPasta #Noah #Pasta #Restaurants #supply #Tariff #tariffs #trump #🥛
-
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #goodattitude #goodwill #attitude #benefactor #cheerfulness #duty #goodcheer #happiness #meme #goodmood
-
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/799…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #duty #friendship #obligation #patience #puttingupwith #relationships
-
GWENDOLEN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2 (1895)More info about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/79756/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #wilde #earnestness #truthtopower #brutalhonesty #candor #duty #plainspeaking #speakout #speakup
-
A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering
-
Former Gamecock, NFL player Jadeveon Clowney arrested in South Carolina https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/381723/ #arret #charges #Clowney #complex #DunbarPlaceApartments #duty #Football #FootballGame #FormerGamecock #Gamecocks #identification #investigation #JadeveonClowney #NFL #NflPlayerJadeveonClowney #night #nonresident #Officer #PARKING #Police #PoliceReport #RockHill #SouthCarolina
-
A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Whatever you think you have to do is simply what you want to do.
[Was Du zu müssen glaubst, ist das, was Du willst.]Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]Sourcing, notes, other translation: wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aphorism #compulsion #desire #duty #justification #moralduty #must #obligation #preference #requirement #selfrighteousness #volition #will #wishing #excuse
-
General #Milley reminds #service #members of their #duty " We do NOT take an #oath to a #King or #Queen, or #Tyrant, or a #Dictator, or a #wannabe #Dictator , we don’t take an oath to an #individual, We take an #oath to the #Constitution " #NOKINGS #NODICTATORS youtube.com/shorts/RHYqk...
Remember your oath. -
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government.
George Washington (1732-1799) American military leader, Founding Father, US President (1789-1797)
Essay (1796-09-17), “Farewell Address,” Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia (1796-09-19)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/washington-george/72…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #washington #georgewashington #Constitution #democracy #government #obligation #duty #power #sacredness #selfdetermination #moralobligation
-
#China peaking because of the fastest ramp up of #solar #wind #evs in human history. #US proudly rushing in the opposite direction w/ the current #budget bill. #Democrats #clueless and #absconding - utter #dereliction of #duty
-
#China peaking because of the fastest ramp up of #solar #wind #evs in human history. #US proudly rushing in the opposite direction w/ the current #budget bill. #Democrats #clueless and #absconding - utter #dereliction of #duty
-
#China peaking because of the fastest ramp up of #solar #wind #evs in human history. #US proudly rushing in the opposite direction w/ the current #budget bill. #Democrats #clueless and #absconding - utter #dereliction of #duty
-
#China peaking because of the fastest ramp up of #solar #wind #evs in human history. #US proudly rushing in the opposite direction w/ the current #budget bill. #Democrats #clueless and #absconding - utter #dereliction of #duty
-
HECUBA: It the duty of a good man to do good everywhere and always to punish the evil men.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἐσθλοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς τῇ δίκῃ θ᾿ ὑπηρετεῖν
καὶ τοὺς κακοὺς δρᾶν πανταχοῦ κακῶς ἀεί.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 844ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2007)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76521/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #duty #evil #goodandevil #goodperson #justice #rightandwrong #virtue #wrongdoing
-
Decided to write this with brevity because this is important and needs to be understood. #disobey #resist #law #unlawfulorders #constitution #Indivisible #duty #oath #honor substack.com/@indivisible...
The Unlawful Order Doctrine an... -
“My object is to proclaim the duty of every poet; and this is: to reveal the Godhead in every man and woman through the expression of each one’s rapture at the ecstatic moment of Union with that Godhead; thereby to show as just and perfect every soul that is.”
#aleisterCrowley #Apologia #book #duty #ecstaticMoment #Expression #godhead #just #man #object #Olla #perfect #poet #proclaim #quote #rapture #reveal #show #soul #union #woman
-
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1829-06), “Signs of the Times,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 49, No. 98, Art. 7Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/731/
#quote #quotes #quotation #action #anticipation #assignment #business #carpediem #duty #forecast #future #hereandnow #now #opportunity #precognition #prediction #present #seizetheday #seizethemoment #today
-
For of course it is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
[οὐ γὰρ ἴσως ταὐτὸν ἀνδρί τ᾽ ἀγαθῷ εἶναι καὶ πολίτῃ παντί.]Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
Nicomachean Ethics [Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια], Book 5, ch. 2 (5.2.11) / 1130b.29 (c. 325 BC) [tr. Thomson (1953)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/aristotle/74914/
#quote #quotes #quotation #Aristotle #citizen #citizenship #civicduty #civicvirtue #duty #good #goodperson #government #publiclife #regime #society #virtue
-
@mittechreview @mit-technology-review-mittechreview
As we have observed from the #oligopolistic #BigTech in the past two decades, these unbridled #capitalistic endeavors do not lend themselves to #selfregulation for the #publicgood. Likewise, it will be naive to carry-on hoping that #OpenAI and the other #generativeAI players will #selfregulate. That's the #duty of elected #governments and #public #agencies, and the promulgation of effective #AI #regulations is now #longOverdue! -
#AI performs
By design #generativeAI is extremely hungry in resources: https://mas.to/@maugendre/111841507744115766
#AI already serves to transform ways of working. You can even industrialize killing: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111505251994013079
#productivity #brutalization #duty #protocol #conformance #AIRisks #risks #dehumanisation #AIWar #efficiency #innovation #Targeting #DataScience #Unit8200 #patriotism #OSINT #CROSINT #MilInt #military #army #Lotem #Habsora #Lavender #LavenderAI #Gaza #Hamas #warCrimes #israel #productivity
