Obligatory Quotes
39 Obligatory quotes by 38 unique authors
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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
— Abu Bakr
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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that…
— Thomas Aquinas
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
— Theodore Bikel
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English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
— Maureen Johnson
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The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
— George Washington
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If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,…
— James Madison
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I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising,…
— Rene Magritte
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends…
— Karl Jaspers
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If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
— C.S. Lewis
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We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught…
— Ivan Illich
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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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Is O used by RenĂ© and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill…
— Anne Desclos
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It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a…
— Frederic Farrar
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We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
— Walid Jumblatt
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Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman.
— Ibn Majah
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Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and…
— Henri Nouwen
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I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and…
— James Spader
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At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I…
— Lanford Wilson
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
— Anton Chekhov
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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