Quotes About Obligations

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

In a day of prosperity we are in great danger of forgetting God, our dependence upon him, our need of him, and our obligations to him. When

The only way of living acceptably to God was not to surpass worldly morality in monastic asceticism, but solely through the fulfillment of the obligations imposed upon the individual by his position in the world. That was his calling. 

The monastic life is not only quite devoid of value as a means of justification before God, but he also looks upon its renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In

Men come and go but bills are forever.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

I can understand the feeling of a man struggling to escape the practical slavery imposed by the multitude of obligations which crowd upon a man who tries to be a good citizen. Root writes to Jack Morgan in 1927 about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Michael Gross' Rogues Gallery

These funds are called vultures because they feed on "dead" bonds in default.Complaining that "these hedge funds who have bought the bonds at 20-30 cents to a dollar … now want to be repaid in full citing contractual obligations

for Paul the cross is the quintessential, unified act of loyalty to God and love for others—what Paul, like Jesus, understands to be the essence of the Jewish Law, the covenant obligations for God's people to love God and neighbor.8 This perspective will form the foundation of Paul's understanding of the appropriate human response to the gospel—a unified response of faith and love—as God's way of forming a (new) covenant community.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

I kept up the bluff, hoping that I might eventually hit upon some workable plan to pay all of my creditors in full.

Something untoward was happening to middle-class American women, an undercurrent of i change was seeping through heir ideas about duties and obligations as mothers, eroding their desire to conform to madonna-like models of unconditional devotion to the young child to adapt a more managerial concept of mother as coordinator and motivator of her child's activities and interests.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Soon, excited by the smells of the mainland, with all their incredibly important tasks and obligations, they would disappear onto the little streets by the waterfront, ebbing away like the ninth wave that reaches furthest and soaks into the ground and never returns to sea.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

The striking silence about duties in many contemporary discussions of rights no doubt reflects immense cultural shifts from a world centred on social and ethical duties, to one in which legal requirements and their enforcement by states are seen as fundamental, and in which individuals are commonly seen as having rights – but little is said about their duties.

My own view is that if we want to establish intellectually robust norms for health policies it would be preferable to start from a systematic account of obligations rather than of rights.

Roughly speaking, I believe, much abstract cosmopolitan thinking has difficulty in moving on from abstraction to a discussion of institutions because it treats the category of rights as fundamental. The difficulty begins to show as soon as we ask who bears obligations to meet these rights and whether all human beings have the same obligations.

In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

The obligations imposed on the government by the Bill of Rights are not a quid pro quo offered to its subjects but the expression of principles of right behavior.

Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or the enjoyment of private property. For socialized human beings were prone to deceive and to exploit others while pretending to be public-spirited.