Quotes About Obligation

Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift.

entiendo que te sientas obligado a defender tus pecados favoritos

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

We don't always get to do what we like. Sometimes we have to do what is right, not what we want

the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us." So now I ask you, said Glaedr, Saphira

Sometimes it's not possible to stay home, even if you want to.

War, a struggle between "our people" and "the enemy," creates a polarized world in which "the enemy" is easily objectified and removed from the community of human obligation.

It would seem they have need of you. Why don't you

I really felt that, belonging to a foot regiment, it was my duty to march with the men.

Juan XXIII y Benigno Zaccagnini hacían simplemente lo que se esperaba de ellos, y no hay razón para que hubiera que felicitarlos por eso.

No one ever obliges us to know, Adso. We must, that is all, even if we comprehend imperfectly.

io devo sapere. Devo Dovete? Chi ve lo impone, ormai? Nessuno ci impone di sapere, Adso. Si deve, ecco tutto, anche a costo di capire male

But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the 'scientific' certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.

What are we, really; and how do we come to be, and for what purpose are we placed here, and what becomes of us when we depart? Above all, what is the origin of that strange faculty in us which we call conscience? Why do we have a sense of duty, and what is the basis of its validity, and of our assurance concerning it? If we are as the beasts of the field that perish, why do we owe any obligation to the world, or to our fellow men, or to ourselves?

His attitude, since he had begun to feel towards a character, was that I owed him something, simply because I seemed willing to help.

When we had come no one could tell me. We were not that kind of people. We simply lived; we did what was expected of us, what we had seen the previous generation do. We never asked why; we never recorded. We felt in our bones that we were a very old people; but we seemed to have no means of gauging the passing of time. Neither my father nor my grandfatehr could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.

When we had come no one could tell me. We were not that kind of people. We simply lived; we did what was expected of us, what we had seen the previous generation do. We never asked why; we never recorded. We felt in our bones that we were a very old people; but we seemed to have no means of gauging the passing of time. Neither my father nor my grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.

Citizenship, after all, is not an entitlement; it requires work. Yet too many citizens of republics, ancient and modern, come to believe that they deserve rights without assuming responsibilities—and they don't worry how or why or from whom they inherited their privileges.1

the point is never what we may expect from life but rather what life expects from us

owing money was the beginning of slavery ..... a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can slap it around.

Senin vazifen, unutmak veya ölmek... Azab?ndan kime ne!