Quotes About Obligation

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

An ethics that does not command us to renounce is a crime against the dignity to which we should aspire and against the happiness which we can obtain.

Discipline is not so much a social necessity as an aesthetic obligation.

To maintain that "all ideas are respectable" is nothing but pompous nonsense. Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with. Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.

There is nothing more common than to transform a duty that inconveniences us into an "ethical dilemma".

There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.

Unos días después de su muerte un ujier del departamento se presentó en su casa para ordenarle que se reincorporara inmediatamente a su puesto de trabajo , pues así lo exigía el jefe. Pero no pudo cumplir su misión y a la vuelta declaró que Akaki Akákievich no aparecería más por allí. «¿Por qué?», le preguntaron. «Porque ha muerto —respondió—. Hace cuatro días que lo enterraron.»

Niente è più bello che essere in tutto debitori soltanto a se stessi.

Ölmek bile kendilerine böyle bir görev verilenlerin i?idir.

On n'a point le temps d'être malade, on n'a pas le droit de souffrir… La souffrance, c'est un luxe de maître…

even people who loved me could demand more of me than I could give—and expect their demands to be met simply because I owed them. I

My memory of my aunt and uncle told me that even people who loved me could demand more of me than I could give—and expect their demands to be met simply because I owed them.

What are guards but villagers doing a tiresome, temporary duty?

Education was no longer free, but it was still mandatory according to the law.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.

I love the idea of reading books as a brotherly, sisterly moral obligation to one's people.

Un citoyen ignoré par l'administration est, d'une certaine façon, voué à la non-existence. Il ne faut toutefois pas ignorer qu'une personne privée de ses droits n'a nul devoir à accomplir.

Necessity has no law.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Agents and agencies can only be obliged to act in ways for which they have an adequate set of capabilities.

Q: Why do you blog? A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.

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