Citizens Quote by Charles Albert Gobat

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes…

— Edward Snowden

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

— Burhan Ghalioun

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

— Jose Saramago

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable…

— Charles Grandison Finney

“To restrain one's ambitions, in recognition of the rights of others, is a contributor to international order, not an abdication from it.”

— David C. Hendrickson

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled…

— Nikki Haley

Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.

— Ed Davey

Treaties negotiated with foreign powers create binding obligations on future generations that cannot be repealed in the way that domestic law can. As a…

— Barry Gardiner

“We have no obligation to assist countries whose governments have policies that will undermine the effectiveness of our aid.”

— Peter Singer

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey