Quotes About Obligation

this before. I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. I'm not clear how that works exactly. They started it. They can't expect me to provide a health plan.

I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first.

These are promises as solemn as government debt.

Darwinists say they're under some sort of epistemological obligation to continue trying, because to invoke design would be to give up on science. Well, I say it's time to redefine science. We should not be looking for only the best naturalistic explanation, but the best explanation, period. And intelligent design is the explanation that's most in conformity with how the world works.

Egoists hold that a man's primary moral obligation is to achieve his own welfare (egoists do not necessarily agree on the nature of man's welfare).

Advocates of self-sacrifice hold that a man's primary obligation is to serve some entity outside of himself.

In the field of morality, the Nazi's primary obligation is to renounce, to renounce his self, in the full, literal sense of the term: his values, in the name of society; his judgment, in the name of authority; his convictions, in the name of flexibility.

Our own German language possesses a word which magnificently designates this kind of activity: Pflichterfüllung (fulfillment of duty); it means not to be self-sufficient but to serve the community." (Meln Kampf)

They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle said: 'no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

I can't stay long. I told my mother I was attending an evening Mass with Henry and Evie at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Henry put a hand to his chest in faux shock. You used the Lord to lie to them? I'll just stand over here in case you're struck by lightning.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Every month I watched my father scrape to pay his bills, sending Mother a monthly child-support check from which neither Joy nor I ever saw a dime.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.