Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by… — George Santayana
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made… — Anatole France
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and… — Susan Sontag
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and… — Lewis Thomas
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is… — Sun Tzu
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under… — Wilhelm Ostwald
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so.… — John Shelton Reed
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on… — Victoria Wood
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we… — Michel Foucault
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives,… — Ernst Mach
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level… — Ellen Barkin
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons. — Emile Durkheim
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position,… — Susan Griffin
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. — Anthony Collins
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a… — Anne Enright
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. — Harry Frankfurt

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