Not exact matches
How we discharge the
duties of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism
of the last two decades, or by raising our voices
on behalf of the laws and democratic norms
of our
country — is a question
of moral conscience, suitable for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.
Here's how it could work... Clegg announces that he will resign as party leader but continue as Deputy Prime Minister: «I have a
duty,
on behalf of my party and my
country, to see through the job that I signed up to,» he would nobly say.
Less cynically, the leaders
of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way
of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions
of countries that advance a way
of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their
duty to take action,
on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.