Quotes About Obligation

I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say 'no' to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I am ready,' I replied. 'How do you know you can do it?' 'Because you require it,' I answered.

the road to the next duty is the only straight one

From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.

Deed, I aye had eneuch adu to du the thing I had to du, no to say the thing 'at naebody wad du but mysel'. I hae had nae leisur' for feelin's an' that, insisted Miss Horn.

It is not betrayal of feeling, but avoidance of duty, that constitutes weakness.