Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think there is an obligation - not just a right, but an obligation - to vote. — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
“life is a gift, death is an obligation, both are equally important to be able to achieve good values” — Friesda Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. — Robert A. Heinlein 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 patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical… — John Bolton 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
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
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
“... 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
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
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows.… — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer… — Harry Jones 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 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
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural… — Adam Smith 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
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people. — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations. — Gerard Arpey Copy Share Image
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.)” — Theo Ellsworth Copy Share Image
For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them. — Daniel A. D'Aniello Copy Share Image
