Quotes About Obligation

The word must is not to be used to princes.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.

I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be, have, you know, to go through a long list of them and tick them. I'm not saying that's not important in fiction, but I think you have a bit more leeway; you can suit yourself.

Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets.

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

The engineers were under imperative orders

La diferencia entre ponerse una máscara, que siempre es ocasión de libertad, y que le obliguen a uno a ponérsela, es la misma que hay entre refugio y cárcel.

He'd run in debt by disputation,And pay with ratiocination.

He that imposes an oath makes it,Not he that for convenience takes it;Then how can any man be saidTo break an oath he never made?

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.