Quotes About Obligation

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Estoy obligado a tolerar que el sol salga todos los días. Es monstruoso. Es inhumano.

El lunes una parte de la familia se fue a sus respectivos empleos y ocupaciones, ya que de algo hay que morir

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

It was a debt that Peter could never fully repay: the debt of borrowed courage.

It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.

Irgendwer muss ja schuld sein.

This is something I have to do.", Jack Simple in FADE by Kailin Gow

The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.

Our faith in the Trinity puts us under an obligation to struggle at every level, from the strictly personal to the highly organized, against all forms of oppression, injustice and exploitation. In our combat for social righteousness and "human rights", we are acting specifically in the name of the Holy Trinity.

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it's absolutely necessary.

Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

When Jim Leyland calls - and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland - when he asked me to play, you don't say no.

My parents actually wanted me to join the service.

I joined politics at the behest of my seniors and considered it my duty to do so.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.

The obligation to respect universal human rights has been voluntarily undertaken by most countries around the world, and rightly so. But all liberal democracies are built on top of states, whose jurisdiction is limited by their territorial reach. No state can undertake an unlimited obligation to protect people outside its jurisdiction, and whether the world would be better off if they all tried to do so is not clear.

Much of what passes for corruption is not simply a matter of greed but rather the by-product of legislators or public officials who feel more obligated to family, tribe, region, or ethnic group than to the national community and therefore divert money in that direction.