“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”— Abraham Lincoln Related Quotes “Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.”— Oscar Wilde “But it is a writer’s duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”— Edward Abbey “We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.”— Jennifer Michael Hecht