Obligation Quotes - page 5

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. (Charlotte Bunch)
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. View quote
Claude Vorilhon
I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything. View quote
Curtis Joseph
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. View quote
David Hackworth
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. View quote
Dave Heineman
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't. View quote
Dave Hickey
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something. View quote
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted. View quote
Frank R. Wolf
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about. View quote
Harold Ramis
We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people. View quote
Ja Rule
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. (John Lynch)
My own philosophy is that you don't really belong to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it. View quote
Jacob K. Javits
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? View quote
John Trumbull
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta. View quote
Joseph Crowley
My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations. View quote
Louis J. Freeh
I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone. View quote
Lucas Till
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. View quote
Bill Owens
Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference. View quote
Max Walker
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space. View quote
Melissa Rosenberg
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers. (Mickey Kaus)
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. View quote
Morgan Brittany
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked. View quote
Morgan Fairchild
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. View quote
Moustapha Akkad
I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good. View quote
Narada Michael Walden