Obligation Quotes - Page 21

• There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Doe, Way

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• I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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• We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Guilt, Desire

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• I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.

  Bob Dole

  Believe, Thinking, President

  "Dole, Clinton Push On Toward Tuesday's Vote". www.cnn.com.

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• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Fall, Mean, Science

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• Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

  David Morrell

  Book, Writing, Results

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• Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Technology, Careers

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• One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.

  William J. Brennan

  Law, Punishment, People

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• 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.

  Steven Pressfield

  Running, Destiny, Self

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• Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Deception, Deceit

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Freedom, Responsibility, Caring

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• In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is in that light that the authorities have both a right and an obligation to supervise and regulate derivative instruments.

  George Soros

  Integrity, Light, Investing

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.96, New Riders

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• My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Country, Jobs, Promise

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• There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Firsts, Entitlement, Mets

  "Tories' charity love-in hits new heights" by Alison Benjamin, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• 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.

  Leo Szilard

  Exercise, Thinking, Desire

  "President Truman Did Not Understand". U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960.

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• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Sick, Family Oriented, Felt

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• The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.

  John Carlos

  Home, Justice, Feelings

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, United States

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.

  James B. Weaver

  Struggle, Taken, Law

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• When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

  Talib Kweli

  Support, Community, Moral

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• Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Passion, Sleep, Men

  Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.35, Wayne State University Press

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• The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Natural, States

  "The Unconstitutionality of Slavery".

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• Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

  Cat Stevens

  Men, Preparation, Important

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• We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Money, Business

  "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.

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