Quotes About Obligation

man can never be obliged in conscience to submit to any power, unless he can be satisfied who is the person who has a right to exercise that power over him.

all parents were, by the law of nature, "under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children" they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good name in the world lay in her hands. They would give her love, protection, even a sort of homage, but in return for that she must be what they wanted and needed her to be.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man!

A grown man, a father, ought to face his responsibilities in life—even if he did not wish to.

Thinkst so little of me, Sir Poet, that I must srve the agenda of my mother or my Queen, and I have no passions of mine own?

Thinkst so little of me, Sir Poet, that I must serve the agenda of my mother or my Queen, and I have no passions of mine own?

If once I loved you, greater is your debt; For certain 'tis you deserved it not, And undeserved love we soon forget...

his gaze. 'But then my responsibilities would be much greater

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

Everyone has a burden to bear, and no one else can carry it for us. It's our very own chimidunchik." "That

Tired is a feeling, but duty is a fact

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

For Hume, self-interest is all there is. The overriding guiding force in all our actions is not our reason, or our sense of obligation toward others, or any innate moral sense—all these are simply formed out of habit and experience—but the most basic human passion of all, the desire for self-gratification. It is the one thing human beings have in common. It is also the necessary starting point of any system of morality, and of any system of government

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?

A questo mondo ci sono tante cose che si è costretti a fare per amore o per forza.

Sólo se trataba de cumplir las reglas —dice mientras cierra el armario—. La vida te sitúa ante ellas. Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

Una vida, la suya, que tal vez algún día acabara por pasarle la factura de modo implacable, toc, toc, toc, señor Falcó, le toca a usted abonar los gastos. Hasta aquí hemos llegado. Fin de la fiesta. En