Quotes About Obligation

Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

Resposibility is the price of greatness.

compulsory duty on every male German reaching the age of twenty. For six months he would have to serve his country, constructing roads, building barracks, or draining marshes, thus fitting him physically and morally for the crowning duty of a German citizen, service with the armed forces.

To fight in defence of his native land is the first duty of the citizen. But to fight in defence of some one else's native land is a different proposition. It may also be a sacred obligation, but it involves a higher conception.

A situation had been created where hundreds of officials had only to do their prescribed duty to their respective countries to wreck the world. They did their duty.

Everything was duty. It was not merely that nothing else mattered. There was nothing else. One did one's duty as well as one possibly could, be it great or small, and naturally one deserved no reward.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

Because I believed, that the more I obliged him in his Necessity, the more grateful he would be in his prosperity ; tho' I now well see the contrary.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Se o exercício desse direito (o direito de dispor de seus próprios corpos, como as feministas diriam hoje), na utopia de Sade, resumia-se ao dever de tornar-se instrumento do prazer de outrem, não era tanto porque Sade odiasse as mulheres, mas porque odiava a humanidade. Ele percebeu, mais claramente do que as feministas, que todas as liberdades sob o capitalismo, no final, resumem-se na mesma coisa, na mesma obrigação universal de sentir e de dar prazer.

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favors and the occasional cauldron of corn beer.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

There is a huge difference between being bound in relationship by the joy of love, and being tied up in obligation and guilt.

A veces pienso que somos masas uniformes que vamos donde nos lleve otro acumulamiento de masa uniforme, que hacemos lo que hay que hacer porque algo hay que hacer y que amamos molestar al otro por nuestras propias imposibilidades. Impedimentos para hacer algo productivo, algo constructivo...

The queen of the Fells is both the most powerful and the least free person in the entire queendom.She is a slave to duty once she comes of age.

"If you don't go to other men's funerals," he told Father stiffly, "they won't go to yours."

Esa muchacha no sabía que ella era lo que era, tal como un cachorro no sabe que es cachorro. Por eso no se sentía infeliz. Lo único que quería era vivir. No sabía para qué, no se lo preguntaba. Quién sabe, tal vez encontraba que había una ínfima gloria en vivir. Pensaba que una persona está obligada a ser feliz. De modo que lo era.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

question by drawing on classical social theory. He understood societies to be established through a form of social contract and to be maintained by individuals' willingness to subordinate personal desires to the regulation of the laws.

Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

Die Folter war [...] praktizierte Schutzpflicht des Souveräns für seine Untertanen.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.