Quotes About Obligation

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

With great power comes great responsibilty.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

One of the many annoying things about being disabled is the obligation I always feel to make you feel better about your reactions to me.

What do we owe the dead, our dead? Maybe it's first that we need to remember them.

When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.

This was a people's war. All the people had a stake in it. All the people had an obligation to put their hearts and wealth and blood into it. All would find their futures indelibly shaped by it.

He also used to oblige them to wear long leather drawers, filled with live cats.

Duty looks at life as a debt to be paid; love sees life as a debt to be collected. Duty is ever paying assessments; love is constantly counting its premiums.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

One who takes a favor or submits to patronage demeans himself. He falls under obligation. He

In a free state every man is held and expected to take care of himself and his family, to make no trouble for his neighbor, and to contribute his full share to public interests and common necessities. If

The Forgotten Man works and votes—generally he prays—but his chief business in life is to pay.

that rights and duties should be in equilibrium. A

Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good—or not doing wrong?

By obligation Pamela read me "The Posting," a warning to would-be owners that pure Border collies are essentially smarter than your average local elected official and slippier than Cool Hand Luke. They can jump six-foot fences, dig under walls, open doors and gates and in an emergency, hot-wire any automobile manufactured before 1998.

That the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.

But it is hard to say no to my brother, whose invitations feel like commands. He says You wanna play golf? with the same presumption that a rich man says to his driver Will you bring the car around?

Values and Duties Moral value refers to the worth of a person or action, whether it is good or bad. Moral duty refers to our obligation to act in a certain way, whether that action is right or wrong.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.