Quotes About Obligation

Sometimes I wish I could look away, like other people seem to be able to do. Not feel it's my job to put things right.

Dryden's original play, Marriage à la Mode, included the lines: "Why should a foolish marriage vow/ which long ago was made/ Oblige us to each other now/ When passion is decayed?

And when someone's asking you to do something in such a pleading way, everything goes against saying no. I

You look beautiful," he said. "You're parentally obligated to say that." "True.

There's a saying: If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

Los hijos de los nobles no pueden permitirse ser compasivos.

si debes cien dólares, el banco te tiene en su poder; pero si debes un millón, eres tú quien tienes en tu poder al banco.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Power is the recognition of necessity.

Power's twin is responsibility.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

I'm not attached to anything.I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.