Quotes About Obligation

Like the matchmaker's commission, it was the sort of fee that had to be paid on the spot.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will." Sigmund Freud wrote to Albert Einstein

La consciencia de la culpabilidad y el sentimiento del deber serían las dos propiedades características del animal gregario.

We have invented the distinction between justice and charity. It is easy to understand why. Our notion of justice dispenses him who possesses from the obligation of giving. If he gives all the same, he thinks he has a right to be pleased with himself.

the exchange of love is illegitimate if one or the other's consent does not proceed from the central point of the soul where the 'yes' can only be eternal. The obligation of marriage, which is now so often regarded as a simple social convention, is written into the very nature of human thought by the affinity between carnal love and beauty. Everything that has some relationship to beauty should be exempted (unaffected) by the passage of time. Beauty is eternity here below.

Antinomianism may be couched in doctrinal and theological terms, but it both betrays and masks the heart's distaste for absolute divine obligation, or duty. That

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

Some people are born into roles. Others have roles thrust upon them.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

for I owe a longer allegiance to the dead than to the living:

What you cannot enforce, do not command!

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

If you do not carry out your mission, the world will lose what God created you to do

When nobody takes a responsibility it's yours.

Your life is your own responsibility.

I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.

It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.

To hear the gospel faithfully and fully presented is to be responsible to see divine glory.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.