Quotes About Obligation

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.

She owed him nothing - less than nothing.

You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

But Urashima had remembered his old parents, and in Japan the duty to parents is stronger than everything else, stronger even than pleasure or love, and he would not be persuaded, but answered:

Time is a difficult debt to pay off. Impossible.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?

Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life? Or am I the only one for whom it is a duty?