Obligation Quotes
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.
When you take out a loan, what's your obligation other than paying it back? You have no other obligation.
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
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I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.
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.
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
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.
If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.
If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.
What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.
I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.
The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
We hold 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.