Obligation Quotes - page 2

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. (Dave Reichert)
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? View quote
Tom G. Palmer
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. View quote
Sidney Poitier
The function of art is to struggle against obligation. View quote
Amedeo Modigliani
We hold that the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty, is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance, ambition and intrigue. View quote
Thomas Paine
To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. View quote
Paulo Coelho
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. View quote
Colin Powell
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb. (Leó Szilárd)
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. View quote
Edmund Burke
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims. View quote
Elie Wiesel
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. View quote
Nick Cave
Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe? View quote
Emil Cioran
The main obligation is to amuse yourself. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings. View quote
Edward Said
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." View quote
Stephen Crane
We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. (Neil Gaiman)
The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs-for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist? View quote
Peter Medawar
We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. View quote
John Kerry
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations. View quote
George Washington
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. View quote
Jeanette Winterson