Hossein Shariatmadari, the managing editor of Kayhan, a newspaper affiliated with the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, recently wrote that the annihilation of Israel "is not only a religious and national duty, but also a universal human duty, from which no Muslim or free human being can be exempt".
First, there is a moral, legal and indeed human duty of care and compassion that applies to all staff working with vulnerable people whoever employs them.
We inherited from José Martí, the apostle, the teacher, our national hero and the most universal of all Cubans, a multitude of ideas that expresses an emancipatory culture and defines the norms for the most profoundly human duty of teaching and educating.
That's the only rule and our human duty.
And Andreotis saw it as his human duty to pick up the debris.
We want it so badly that we feel it's our human duty to humiliate ourselves.
At various times he relates the history of classical heroes, attacks the hoarding of money, and theorizes about astronomy and about the human duty to increase and multiply.
JON LEE ANDERSON: When civilian human lives are at stake and you are there, physically present, and have the choice of intervening to save those lives, it is your human duty to do so.
As for our fathers and mothers, none of them talked of "empty-nest syndrome", even though its implication that the principal human duty is to protect and feed the young would have suited their generation better than ours.
In addition, the Quran reiterates that it is our basic human duty to ensure no one remains hungry at any time.
