Quotes About Obligation

human beings we have the obligation to transcend law through mercy. If we all had to live by the law, we would all be condemned—all of us. It is only by showing compassion and mercy that we create a better world.

Instead, he defined individualism as the freedom to achieve and the obligation to return something of value to the community that had nurtured and sustained him. I believe this was both the source and object of his philanthropy. As

it would be important to me." There it was, the sentence from which there was no defense. In my family, when you asked a favor of someone, it was acceptable to refuse. But once the person said that it was important to them, it crossed the line and became an absolute imperative. We did not use those words frivolously, and they carried an awesome weight. "Then I'll do it.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Yo no respondí pero pensé que la diversión deja de ser diversión cuando se vuelve obligatoria. Tener veinte años sin tener veinte años era un esfuerzo que no me tentaba.

Most people already know what they are supposed to do, but they choose not to do it.

Fail not in this charge at your peril.

In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.

Neil Degrasse Tyson says that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Surely it's scientists who are under no obligation to make sense.

Annabelle is rarely relaxed anymore, not even in her own house. So here, her panic is rising. It's a tsunami of dread and obligation and the knowledge of bathroom use in small places.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, y si no el mundo se detendría. Todo permanecería flotando en una vacilación global y continua.

Creo que la única obligación que tiene el hombre en esta tierra es realizar sus sueños.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.