Quotes About Obligation

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

And so I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place and an enormous sense of stability.

At Barca, we always have an obligation to win and to do it in style for our fans in the stadiums and around the world.

If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you'll still have to go on the stage and play 'Charley's Aunt.'

Should Americans take care of their brothers and sisters? Absolutely. We all have an obligation as individuals to care for the poor. And, yes, there is a role for government and even food stamps in this equation.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?