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Obliged Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to…
- 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…
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- I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. — Johann Sebastian Bach
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- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself… — Albert Camus
- During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must… — Maya Angelou
- Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson
- Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft
- If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart… — Sun Tzu
- And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson
- Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — Wystan Hugh Auden