May Quote by Tom G. Palmer Download Open image “Obligations may be universal or particular.” — Tom G. Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Obligation Palms Particular Responsibility Universal
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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