Quotes About Obligatory

And yet circumcision is an act that, according to the fiqh, is in no way compulsory. It is a sunna act, that is to say, one that is strongly recommended. The excision of girls is even less obliga­tory. It is a makruma: a pious practice, like removing a stone from the road, clearing a public drain or maintaining a collective watertap.

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Our lifestyle is not our private affair. We dare not allow each person to do what is right in his or her own eyes. The Gospel demands more of us: it is obligatory upon us to help one another hammer out the shape of Christian simplicity in the midst of modern affluence.

So it would begin. The obligatory questions, the perfunctory answers. Both pretending. Unenthusiastic partners, the two of them, in this tired old dance.

Tera said, "All right, who's doing the obligatory thing with the rock?" "What thing?" Bowe asked. Mariketa said, "You know, someone drops a rock, and we all silently watch it fall while contemplating the plummet to our deaths?" Oh, that rock thing.

Quando o serviço é obrigatório para todos, quando todos os cidadãos são soldados, ou foram, todas as forças sociais se acham dispostos de maneira a proteger o poder, ou até mesmo sua ausência, como se viu na França.

the first Allied troops cantered eastward in the rollicking high spirits obligatory at the beginning of all military debacles.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

We were both dutiful, of course, my mother because she was a dutiful woman: I myself felt less humble but knew that life was only simple when one concurred with the wishes of others. In itself this is a dangerous weakness, but it seemed obligatory at the time.

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

In Israel the sections of the Pentateuch that have in the past been considered as laws could now be considered as not carrying the obligatory force of legislation (if it is true that in conjunction with the literature from the ancient Near East these are not laws or legislation). They nevertheless do carry obligatory force for Israel as stipulations of the covenant.[1]

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.

the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all.—

Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.

I'm a huge fan of 'Glee'. Every episode I watch makes me that much happier, and I think it should be obligatory for all people to watch it. I just love the joy!

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Minha cara, enxaqueca de viúva é falta de homem na hora de dormir. Tem remédio fácil, compra-se com o casamento… — Casamento? Deus me livre e guarde… — Também não é obrigatório… Pode tomar o remédio sem casar, o que não falta por aí é homem, minha cara — e ria tagarela.

far beyond the boundaries within which race-thinking and class-thinking have developed into obligatory patterns of thought, free public opinion has adopted them to such an extent that not only intellectuals but great masses of people will no longer accept a presentation of past or present facts that is not in agreement with either of these views.

Cooking is no longer obligatory, and that marks a shift in human history, one whose full implications we're just beginning to reckon.

an obligatory manifestation of matter, bound to arise wherever conditions are appropriate.

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.