Quotes with obligation

  • There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
  • We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.
  • The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
  • None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
  • Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Assata Shakur If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Adam Schiff Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Carl Hubbell Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Bobby Rush Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • J. Johnson Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
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  • Barbara Coloroso Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Margaret Drabble How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 41
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Andrew Jackson I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Henry Rollins I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bill Owens It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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