Quotes About Obligation

It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother's authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation to do nothing that would render her less worthy of our regard, and that she had failed in her duty in becoming aware of Swann's existence and in allowing members of her family to associate with him. "How should she know Swann? A lady who, you always made out, was related to Marshal Mac-Mahon!

For every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying calls.

Niet om onzentwil, maar omdat vader en moeder naar een aardig speelpopje verlangen, wordt een kind de levenstaak opgelegd.

While Christians do have a general duty to be soft-hearted, forgiveness is dependent on repentance. To forgive in the absence of repentance is to validate sinful behaviour. And even when someone does genuinely repent, and forgiveness is appropriate, there should be no obligation to remain under their leadership – nor for them to remain in leadership.

We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

Our duty is to serve the mission, and if we're not doing that, then we have no right to call what we do service.

We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

Negro privilege had to be circumspect: impeccable but not arrogant; confident yet obliging; dignified, not intrusive.

Aside from the privilege of actually being white, they had been denied the privilege of freely yielding to depression, of flaunting neurosis as a mark of social and psychic complexity. A privilege that was glorified in the literature of white female suffering and resistance. A privilege Good Negro Girls had been denied by our history of duty, obligation, and discipline

Hay que respetar las legítimas ansias de verdad: el hombre tiene obligación grave de buscar al Señor, de conocerle y de adorarle, pero nadie en la tierra debe permitirse imponer al prójimo la práctica de una fe de la que carece; lo mismo que nadie puede arrogarse el derecho de hacer daño al que la ha recibido de Dios»

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.