Quotes About Obligation

You can't force people to be thankful just because in your mind they seem to benefit from what you're doing… especially when what you're doing is something you would do anyway, even without them as an excuse.

Do not harm. This is the first precept, or obligatory rule for behavior, given to a Zen Buddhist during lay ordination, a ceremony that marks a period of sincere practice, typically a year, with a teacher and other practitioners. If the first precept was not clear to the Abbot, what had been transmitted to him from the ancient lineage of dharma teachers ?

89) Dudley And Harry Remained Friends Despite Harry and Dudley not getting along at all when they were kids, they ended up seeing each other several times after the Battle of Hogwarts. They would keep in touch and see one another whenever they were in close proximity of each other. The children hated it, but Dudley and Harry felt an unspoken obligation to be family in one way or another.

It may be a dangerous and confusing job. But it's mine to do…

The basic principle that should guide economic policy is recognition that debts which can't be paid, won't be. The great political question is, how won't they be paid?

When Franklin D. Roosevelt launched Social Security in 1935, he did not present it as expressing the mutual obligation of citizens to one another. ... Rather than offer a communal rationale, FDR argued that such rights were essential to "true individual freedom," adding, "necessitous men are not free men.

work, at its best, is a socially integrating activity, an arena of recognition, a way of honoring our obligation to contribute to the common good.

I must survive. I have promises to keep.

The rule of law, properly speaking, is an exercise of authority in which the power of the subjects of that authority to seek and to obtain the satisfaction of their desires is qualified by the obligation to subscribe to certain moral-procedural conditions while leaving them to choose prudentially for themselves the substantive actions and utterances in which to seek such satisfactions.

Even reason is individualized, and becomes merely the reasoning of an individual without power or authority to oblige acceptance by others: to convince a man is not to enjoy a common understanding with him, but to displace his reason by yours.111

There are several tasks that humans cannot manage on their own. As their caretakers, it becomes incumbent upon cats to assist whenever humans attempt these activities: writing letters; doing homework; paying bills; typing on keyboards; ironing or folding clothes; making beds; unpacking anything that comes in a box; hanging holiday decorations; and unloading groceries. With all of these tasks, it is the cat's obligation to be in the middle of the job — the sooner the better.

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. —

If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be." "And what is that?" I demanded. "A slave to the throne.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Não conseguiu impedir-se de pensar se alguma vez, entre uma caçada e um concerto, D. Carlos se teria lembrado da missão que lhe confiara e do que ela poderia significar nas relações com Inglaterra.

I mean, we're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are—as far as we know—the only part of the universe that's self-conscious. We could even be the universe's form of consciousness.

For example, your tenant in a wheelchair wants to widen the doorways, lower the bathroom and kitchen countertops, and perhaps install a ramp. The ADA pretty much says you must allow your tenant to make these changes at their expense, providing they return your unit to its original condition when they move out.