I lived, while 1 1/2 million Jewish children died. So I have an obligation to repair the world. — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think there is an obligation - not just a right, but an obligation - to vote. — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The president is under no obligation to sign the spending bills that Congress gives to him. And once that happens, once he… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary… — John R. Leopold Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short,… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people. — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
“life is a gift, death is an obligation, both are equally important to be able to achieve good values” — Friesda Copy Share Image
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
