It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time. — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There are things you don't want to happen, but have to accept, things you don't want to know, but have to learn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot… — Morgan Fairchild Copy Share Image
...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
My own philosophy is that you don't really belong to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people… — John A. Byrne Copy Share Image
To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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