One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention… — Fons Trompenaars Copy Share Image
In between all your goals, priorities, obligations, and everything else that might appear on one of your upcoming to-do lists, there are… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no… — Colin S. Smith 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.”… — Dave Crumby Copy Share Image
He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we… — Judah Smith 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
I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
“... how much less is the sense of obligation in those who receive favours than in those who grant them." Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to… — D.G. Kaye Copy Share Image
Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches,… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an… — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our… — John Sutherland Bonnell Copy Share Image
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible… — Patrick Bedard Copy Share Image
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
