Quotes About Obligation

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Each man has some part to play.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.