Obligation Quotes - Page 12

• To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

  James Monroe

  Character, People, Sacred

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

  Frank Chodorov

  Taken, Self, Care

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.59, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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

  Capacity, Serving God, Thousand

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• Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

  Michael Lewis

  Luck, Debt, Ifs

  "Don’t Eat Fortune’s Cookie". Princeton University’s 2012 Baccalaureate Remarks, www.princeton.edu. June 3, 2012.

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• People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

  Michael Lewis

  Successful, People, Luck

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Thinking, America

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• We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

  Bill Courtney

  Grateful, Giving, Moral

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• Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

  Karl Brandt

  War, Ethical, Subordinates

  "Ethics of Nazi doctors analyzed in telecast" by Joanna Arnold, October 17, 2007.

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• The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

  Carl Bernstein

  Powerful, Responsibility, Reality

  "The best obtainable version of the truth". Carl Bernstein's talk at the annual convention of the Radio and Television News Directors Association, September 26, 1998.

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• I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

  Garry McCarthy

  Gun, Fire, Hands

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• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

  Martha Reeves

  Ordinary, Mundane Life, Way

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• I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

  Roland Gift

  Self Worth, Wheels, Records

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• Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

  Frank R. Wolf

  Speaks Out, Scripture, Clear

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• Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Sequels

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'James Thomson'

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• 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.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Fun, Honor

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Democracy, Links

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• I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.

  John William Draper

  Religious, Stars, Sight

  "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe". Book by John William Draper, Harper & brothers, p. 356, 1863.

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• We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Trying

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Cities, Gourmet, Flavor

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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.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Choices, Matter, Persons

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.37, Cato Institute

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• Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.

  David Bentley Hart

  Christian, Religious, Political

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• Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Noble

  Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Art, Thinking, Sea

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• There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.

  Jim Abbott

  People, Challenges, Disability

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• To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Honor, Factories

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