Quotes About Obligation

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

I must motor to Windsor for this wretched Investiture.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I'd asked Dad for the millionth time if, now that I had a baby brother, I could stay in New York.........and Dad for the millionth time replied I had signed a contract and had to stick to it; when Michael said Actually, sir, legally, minors can't enter into contracts, and so according to New York State law, you cannot hold Mia to any document she might have signed, as she was under sixteen at the time, making it invalid.

He waved at his attendants. I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back. If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain. The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. Oh, dear, Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn.

Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.

you have in the service of others? Kerry shook her head. No, you really had no obligation aside from whatever one you created for yourself.

Have I mentioned before that being responsible sucks?

Our problems are not ours alone — we share them with future generations — and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," James Madison pointed out, "the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

If an oath is a mistake then you are still obligated because you are sworn to it.

had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose.

But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible.

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.

The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own.

Industrial conscription is, of course, rigidly enforced. Every man and woman has to work, and slacking is severely punished, by prison or a penal settlement.

I have no choices left to me at all. I shall marry my cousin, sire children, and do all that is expected of me.

Sometimes we praise because we choose to; other times we praise because we want to. Occasionally we praise because we have to—because, if we don't, the rocks will cry out!

Sometimes we praise because we choose to; other times we praise because we want to. Occasionally we praise because we have to—because, if we don't, the rocks will cry out! That's compulsory praise!