Quotes About Obligation

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.