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Quotes About Obligation

rad - ono što ?iniš pod moranje, a igra sve ono na šta nisi primoran.
~ Mark Twain
We all have our duties here. We all suffer. We all endure our setbacks for the greater good of mankind.
~ Markus Zusak
chance of taking responsibility for other people.
~ Marta Perry
That same day he wrote to Austen Chamberlain, to explain that he would soon have to ask for 'substantial repayments' of French and Italian war debts, already more than six years overdue.
~ Martin Gilbert
Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the obligation of government to move resolutely to the side of the freedom movement. There is a right and a wrong side in this conflict and the government does not belong in the middle.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Isn't there one thing I can ask of you that you won't disregard?. . . . You could just reply, Yes, Baron, and be done with it.' Yes, Baron.
~ Arthur Golden
No puedes pretender que careces de toda influencia. Tienes la obligación de utilizar toda la influencia que tengas, a no ser que quieras ir a la deriva por la vida, como un pez panza arriba llevado por la corriente.
~ Arthur Golden
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Morta la vecchia, debito saldato.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
La vida no se presenta de modo alguno como un regalo del cual podamos disfrutar, sino más bien como un deber, una tarea que es necesaria cumplir a fuerza de trabajo.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Rahel grew up without a brief. Without anybody to arrange a marriage for her. Without anybody who would pay her a dowry and therefore without an obligatory husband looming on her horizon.
~ Arundhati Roy
Indeed, in the medical model, the person with disability is placed under an obligation to want to get well, his or her multiple social roles of parent, worker, spouse, and so on being suspended temporarily in exchange for a sign of strenuous effort toward improvement.
~ Ato Quayson
So when my turn came up again, I put my name down for duty that night.
~ Atul Gawande
Medical care is about our life and death, and we've always needed doctors to help us understand what is happening and why, and what is possible and what is not. In the increasingly tangled web of experts and expert systems, a doctor has an even greater obligation to serve as a knowledgeable guide and
~ Atul Gawande
Equally troubling, people seem happy to let us off the hook.
~ Atul Gawande
The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.
~ Auberon Waugh
Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain.
~ August Strindberg
Like you? I go out of here every morning...bust my butt...cause I like you? It's my job. It's my responsibility!... Not cause I like you! Cause it's my duty to take care of you. ...liking your black ass wasn't part of the bargain.
~ August Wilson
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as the right to enslave .
~ Ayn Rand
I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only absolute.
~ Ayn Rand
He wondered whether he really liked his mother. But she was his mother and this fact was recognized by everybody as meaning automatically that he loved her, and so he took for granted that whatever he felt for her was love. He did not know whether there was any reason why he should respect her judgment. She was his mother; this was supposed to take the place of reasons.
~ Ayn Rand