Quotes About Obligation

When one joins the military, he or she is promised health care for life. So we need to make sure that happens.

If you want to fight, this is what's promised to you. If you agree to it, then I don't feel like you have the right to go back and say, 'They're not paying me that much.' You agreed to it. This is your job. I think that some guys may forget about that a little bit.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

I do think it is the responsibility of parents to feed their children properly.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought and conscience of all individuals is protected.

Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community.

We have an obligation to ensure our service members are protected, our national defense is resilient, and our forces are well-equipped.

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

Protecting our kids is a sacred obligation.

We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance.

I got thee to succeed me in my hall, I have fed thee, clad thee. But I have no call To die for thee. Not in our family, Not in all Greece, doth law bid fathers die To save their sons. Thy road of life is thine None other's, to rejoice at or repine. All that was owed to thee by us is paid. My throne is thine. My broad lands shall be made Thine, as I had them from my father…. Say, How have I wronged thee? What have I kept away? Not died for thee?… I ask not thee to die.

Many were already on Lord Copper's pay-roll and they thus found their working day prolonged by some three hours without recompense—with the forfeit, indeed, of the considerable expenses of dressing up, coming out at night, and missing the last train home; those who were normally the slaves of other masters were, Lord Copper felt, his for the evening.

There's nothing wrong in being a physical wreck, you know. There's no moral obligation to be Postmaster-General or Master of Foxhounds or to live to walk ten miles at eighty.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

So the men did, and they died.

I feel a kind of horror at the superior tyranny that obliges us to keep walking even though we have no idea what it is that our uncertainty is going to meet.

I don't know what the point is of this journey I was obliged to make between one night and another, in the company of the entire universe.

I consider myself fortunate for no longer having family, as it relieves me of the obligation to love someone, which I would surely find oppressive.

Desde el punto de vista ético, se considera que toda fuente de riqueza es social y por tanto implica responsabilidades sociales en quienes se benefician de ella, tanto más cuanto más provecho obtengan.