Quotes About Obligation

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often than not they are the occasion of profitless dispute, and when invoked as the conditions of the obligation to observe the conditions prescribed by lex they positively pervert the association: they are the recipe for anarchy" (OH 16o).

We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.

A man's first duty is to his own home, but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the State; for if he fails in this second duty it is under the penalty of ceasing to be a freeman.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Concepts such as love, charity, obligation and tradition all helped to shape medieval attitudes to devotion, but perhaps the most powerful conditioning influence was fear;

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

We do our chores when chores are needed to be done.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?

I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

Dan and Steve. I've know them for years. They're a bit dull, I'm afraid, but I have to see them sometimes. Duck noires, right? Sorry? I call 'em duck noires. Sort of a mixture of lame duck and bête noire. People you don't want to see but kinda feel you should.

I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

With great power comes great responsibility

not here, I'll be here. You don't get to leave. That's the rule. You

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss doesn't want to attend. I take notes. I'll get back to you.

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.