Obligation Quotes - Page 25

• Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

  Michael Polanyi

  Responsibility, Exercise, Principles

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• 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.

  Richard Shelby

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Ideas, Evil

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• I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

  Robert E. Lee

  Father, War, Fall

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.45, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

  Robert Grudin

  Giving, Mind, Attention

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

  Joyce Meyer

  Church, Going To Church, Looks

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• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

  Anderson Cooper

  Justice, Guilt, Clients

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• When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Children, Self, Parent

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• I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.

  Ronald Perelman

  God, Believe, Play

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• Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

  Neville Cardus

  May, Entertainment, Distrust

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Autobiography”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem... most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Earth, Might, Taught

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• Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Corporations, Corruption, Social

  Speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, May 19, 2005.

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• The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Night, Giving, Enemy

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• Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

  Grace Napolitano

  Reform, Able, Social

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• I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, People, Want

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.52, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

  Sally Jewell

  Believe, Land, Water

  "Secretary Jewell Offers Vision for Conservation, Balanced Development, Youth Engagement in National Press Club Speech", www.doi.gov. October 31, 2013.

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Independent, Responsibility, Government

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• Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

  John Bruton

  Country, Moving, Rights

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• The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Firsts

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• Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
  (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

  John Ralston Saul

  Rights, Giving, Protection

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• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Hard Work, Fighting, Men

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• In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.

  Octavius Winslow

  Government, Law, Long

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