Quotes About Obligation

He came to pay a debt he didn't owe, Because I owed a debt I couldn't pay!

with the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

have put up a bond of five hundred dollars—significant

Busy day and I'm not getting any younger. And Irene Cramer's not getting any older. And somebody has to answer for that.

United States Code, title 10, § 311(a).

He was briefly a member of the Home Guard, but got bored of it in 1942 and stopped turning up. The commander tried to frighten him with military law, only to find that on his application form under the question: 'do you understand that by enrolling in the Home Guard you place yourself liable to military law?' Turing had written 'No'.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world.

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

Her definition of love was obligation and guilt. It was the only love the Crow family had to offer.

Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.

No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.

Morality deals with what we might like to do, but politics deals with what we must do. There's no connection between them at all.

Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there's no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?

You don't have to like it, you know. All you have to do is to do it.

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

I have no problem with government enforcement of statutes and regulatory policy serving a conscience function. What my problem is is the way it seems that we as individual citizens have adopted a corporate attitude. That our ultimate obligation is to ourselves.

before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding. But since I'm married, except renewing, of course, I give you my honour I've not touched a bit of stamped paper.

The accounts that history presents have to be paid.

Ha. Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner. There's a double meaning in that.

Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak when power to flattery bows?

I should not urge thy duty past thy might.

Sometimes our best isn't good enough. SOmetimes we must do what is required

Si poteva sprecare l'intera giovinezza delineando differenze di nessun conto tra un obbligo morale e un altro.