Quotes About Obligations

Debts of friendship are not debts.

The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.

If you're going to be a grown-up," said Joan, "you've got to start thinking about grown-up things. And number one is money.

Men come and go but bills are forever.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

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

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

Sometimes your pledges become your problems.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

United States military profession as early as 1863 in General Order number 100 of the United States Army Field Manual: "Men who take up arms against another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings responsible to one another." Individuals always remain ethically responsible for their actions, for the choices they make among conflicting moral obligations, as well as for the consequences which result from them.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Debts are the modern day chains that keep us enslaved.

Here we come to the central question of this book: What, precisely, does it mean to say that our sense of morality and justice is reduced to the language of a business deal? What does it mean when we reduce moral obligations to debts? What changes when the one turns into the other? And how do we speak about them when our language has been so shaped by the market?