Obligation Quotes
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Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
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As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an obligation to help everyone within our own borders. The problem is that this automatically gets translated into: "What's the point of having a huge military if we can't bomb people?" That's the problem that I have. Our foreign policy is essentially our defense policy.
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Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.
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I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.
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Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .
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I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.
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The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.
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If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.
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It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
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The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
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We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.
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Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.
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I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience interested. In fact, I asked some of the actors to take a look at His Girl Friday, a Howard Hawks film with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, because they talk over each other and there's a great energy.
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The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
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I have no obligation to deal with slime.
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Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.
