Quotes About Obligation

The law stated that those with property worth more than £20 a year were obliged to adopt the status of knights; but knighthood was an expensive business, with the cost of equipment alone, and many landowners were ready to pay a relatively large sum to avoid the honour.

And then I remembered something Leo McCarey said to me: "Always pay everything off.

chooks. You cannot go away and leave

The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

We have no obligation to assist countries whose governments have policies that will undermine the effectiveness of our aid.

Is the fact that other people are not doing their fair share a sufficient reason for allowing a child to die when you could easily rescue that child? I think the answer is clear: No. The others have, by refusing to help with the rescue, made themselves irrelevant. They might as well be so many rocks. According to the fair-share view, in fact, it would be better for the children if they were rocks, because then you would be obliged to wade back into the pond to save another child.

I argued against the view that the only obligation we have to strangers is to avoid harming them; but even if we were to take that view, the facts of climate change would demonstrate clearly that we are harming hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of the world's poor.

We have an obligation to help those in absolute poverty that is no less strong than our obligation to rescue a drowning child from a pond.

First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it. Second premise: Extreme poverty is bad. Third premise: There is some extreme poverty we can prevent without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance. Conclusion: We ought to prevent some extreme poverty.

they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes.

Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse!

Can is not the same as must." "But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Can is not the same as must. But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.

If he had another brother he would call him. But for a brother he has only Jerry and Jerry has only him. For a daughter he has only Merry. For a father she has only him. There is no way around any of this.

That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.

If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire . . . the core of the misunderstanding lies in thinking of prayer as something that we do. Understood more correctly, prayer is what God does in us. Our part has much more to do with consent than initiative.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Grusspflicht.

I don't know what good I could do. None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.

He'd paid all his taxes, so that left … you guessed it.