Quotes About Obligation

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

I'm not a god in the traditional fashion, I am a patron. Patrons have responsibilities. Granted, I rarely have the opportunity to exercise them.

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.

To be believed in is an obligation. Only by heeding that obligation are you made worthy of that belief.

Do not believe I now owe you, slave." "You will discover," the slave said, moving past the warrior, "that the notion of debt is not so easily denied.

to have knowledge of means to have responsibility to means to have care for.

To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Why do you have to develop a sense of loyalty now? It is tiresome and unexpected.

If he went away, would the link between himself and the others be broken? Would he be free or drawn back against his will? Would Owen come after him? He shuddered at the thought, suddenly presented with the image in his mind of a moonlit night, himself in a small room alone, and a figure outside below, looking up at his window, forming a wordless summoning.

Pharinet longed only for the comfort of the sea, the sigh and hiss of waves upon the sand, but there were so many things Everna wanted her to do.

She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.

I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

Ron DeSantis is right: Republicans must aggressively fight back in the culture wars. They didn't start the wars, but they have an obligation not to shy away from confrontation on social issues.

I have inherited my father's responsibilities, not privileges. One of the members of his family had to continue his legacy of social responsibility.

It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.