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 have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to… — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation… — Bret Bielema Copy Share Image
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to… — Carl Hubbell Copy Share Image
I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see… — Clive Palmer Copy Share Image
I like the boundaryless potential you get when you make work for a context that is open to interpretation. Thinking about an… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through… — Hizkias Assefa Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the… — Luis de Guindos Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image