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Quotes About Obligation

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.
~ Ellen Ochoa
The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.
~ Merrick Garland
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
~ Joanna Lumley
I've been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can't escape it even if I don't like it. I take pride in carrying forward what's been given to me.
~ N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
~ George Osborne
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
~ Jacques Delors
The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.
~ David Souter
More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
~ Antonin Scalia
I don't enjoy cricket. I just take it as a priority... something that I have to do.
~ Gautam Gambhir
While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.
~ Jeff Duncan
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
~ Kathleen Parker
Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.
~ Mother Angelica
I do come from a place of privilege. But I have it, so what am I supposed to do now? I'd be the dumbest person on the planet if I didn't do anything about it.
~ Janhvi Kapoor
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
~ Laura Schlessinger
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
~ Carlos Slim
No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.
~ Michael Gove
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
~ Annalena McAfee
Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they're interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.
~ Brian Stelter
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
~ Garrett Hardin
Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.
~ Lynette Fromme