Obligation Quotes
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Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
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National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
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Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
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We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
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Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
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Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
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The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.
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The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
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My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.
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And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.
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The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things. The idea that there's an obligation to have that thing happen in four years or five years or six years, I think we need to disavow that.
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Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.
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Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
