Quotes About Obligation

First and foremost, the onus is on yourself to perform your own duties. If you can't, then it's your family or community's job to support you. If that still doesn't work out, then the government will take responsibility to protect you.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

As far as 'Final Destination' and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

I try to fulfill my role and my responsibility as much as I can.

For the clubs that I've played for I always tried to fulfill my contract.

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées »

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; [...] il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

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.

She felt obligated to remain dysfunctional and sullen for at least another hour.

We need to be patient with him." "As he's patient with them?" "No, as God is patient with us. Contrary to what you're thinking right now, Atretes shouldn't be your first concern. Our first obligation is to the Lord." "I know, but . . ." "You know, but are you acting according to what you know or what you feel?" She

Even a future monarch doesn't always want to do what she is supposed to do.

Should is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department. - John Barrett Jr.

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.