Quotes About Obligation

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

It was one thing to pursue your passion at any cost and quite another to make someone else pay the bill.

other brave get …" He gave Boone's head a sharp, possessive pat and straightened up. "Dance finish. You take dead braves, plasstic. Put in ground." "Little Bear, I can't now. I must go with Emma. Did—did you see her? She—she saw you. I have to make sure she—helps, and doesn't tell.

My life felt narrower, and not my own. I gave up some of my life, that's the kind of thought I had, common to us who don't want to do what we feel obliged to do. A sacrifice.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as a human being, necessarily remain with him during life; and, however capable of being trampled upon, are incapable of being blotted out, extinguished, annihilated, or separated or eliminated from his nature as a human being, or deprived of their inherent authority or obligation.

Still another reason why the payment of taxes implies no consent, or pledge, to support the government, is that the taxpayer does not know, and has no means of knowing, who the particular individuals are who compose "the government." To him "the government" is a myth, an abstraction, an incorporeality, with which he can make no contract, and to which he can give no consent, and make no pledge. He knows it only through its pretended agents. "The government" itself he never sees.

He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.

Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.

I come to say that you may go, and I will help you. But there must be conditions." Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.

It is youth's gift not to feel its debts

She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

if someone's worked and been paid for twenty-two years, wasn't that the agreement? Don't get me wrong—loyalty is a good thing—but I have a hard time understanding why we feel we deserve something more

Before allowing them to leave, Henry bound them to support his dynastic plan.

Despite the humiliating terms of the treaty, Francis and Mary had to promise to ratify and fulfill all of its conditions

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

There is no excuse for cruelty, but--at an orphanage--perhaps we are obliged to withhold love; if you fail to withhold love at an orphanage, you will create an orphanage that no orphan will willingly leave. You will create a Homer Wells--a true orphan, because his only home will always be at St. Cloud's.

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