There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent,… — Judith Butler 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
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
Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
