I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Individuals in very small groups are about the only thing that is free of the disease of the embedded growth obligation. — Eric Weinstein Copy Share Image
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive. — Ralph Waite Copy Share Image
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by… — Pliny the Younger 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
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
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
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To have a friend does not end when you argue. Actually, friendship started when that thing happened. Not because you call each… — Myself Copy Share Image
