obligation quotes

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.