Quotes About Obligation

The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free.

He didn't explain how, but then again, no one does. They just say it's your patriotic duty and everyone kind of goes along with it.

Todos tenemos que morir, es una obligación. Si no muriéramos sería horrible, tendríamos que matarnos unos a los otros. Morir es nuestra única esperanza. Morir es el sentido de la vida, no te confundas.

They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

I was afraid of being annihilated on account of saying no: those who refuse to fulfill their duties lose their right to exist.

Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

has never been hard for me to pay my taxes because I understand it to be the repaying of a large, in fact, an almost incalculable, debt.

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

An agreement is an agreement, and when you make it, you should stick to it.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

It's constant - all day long I have to eat, but it's part of the job.

I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

But duties, my friend, are not sentiments. To do what we ought is by no means to do what we like. A man who would give his life enthusiastically for a woman must be ready to die coldly for his country.

Some persons may, perhaps, think that this declaration is somewhat autocratic and self-assertive. They will quarrel with the novelist for wanting to be an historian, and will call him to account for writing politics. I am simply fulfilling an obligation — that is my reply. The work I have undertaken will be as long as a history; I was compelled to explain the logic of it, hitherto unrevealed, and its principles and moral purpose.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

enough. Standing for an ovation at a baseball game is not enough. To do right by our veterans—to recognize their value to our society and fulfill our solemn obligation to those who volunteered to protect the rest of us—we first have to understand what they have accomplished and what they offer our nation.

universalistic demands of morality. Faith requires