Obligation Quotes - Page 37

• The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

  John Adams

  Law, Practice, Doe

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.32

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• Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

  Max Walker

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

  Abigail Adams

  Real, Men, Moral

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

  Pliny the Younger

  Men, Denial, Favors

  "Epistulae". Book by Pliny the Younger, III. 4,

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• Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

  Pliny the Younger

  People, Honor, Binding

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• Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.

  Rufus Jones

  War, Men, Ties

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• If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guy is going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution.

  John Roberts

  Winning, Guy, Littles

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• I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

  Dennis Hopper

  Party, Reading, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

  Michael Ian Black

  Laughing, Parent, Trying

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Valentine's Day is much more of a holy day of obligation for a guy in a relationship with a woman, because a woman has certain emotional expectations. Even if she doesn't value Valentine's Day, or views it as a corporate exercise, she still often wants her boyfriend or husband to go through the motions, just in case she values it.

  Dan Savage

  Husband, Valentine, Exercise

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience interested. In fact, I asked some of the actors to take a look at His Girl Friday, a Howard Hawks film with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, because they talk over each other and there's a great energy.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Girl, Friday, Trying

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

  Mother Angelica

  Today, Poverty, Speak

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

  Mary Oliver

  People, Creative, World

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Choices, Cocoons

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• A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Evil

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Revenge, People, Example

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• But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Knowing, Wish

  "Law and Authority". "Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets". Book edited by Roger N. Baldwin, 1927.

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• The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

  Ricardo Alarcon

  Guarantees, Freedom Of Religion, States

  "'You Should Not Expect A Miracle'". TIME Interview, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1998.

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• If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Grateful, Deeds, Rewards

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• It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen.

  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

  Israel, Dust, Fallen

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• Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

  John McGahern

  Suffering, Doe, Fiction

  John McGahern (2009). “Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.

  Brian Houston

  World, Obsession, Don't Change

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• There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.

  Tony Benn

  Law, People, May

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• On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to tell people that. With global warming, the probability of a bad outcome if we stay on our current emission trends is incredibly high. If you know a bad outcome is likely to happen, what right do you have not to communicate that? You go into a doctor's office, what are they going to do - not tell you the diagnosis?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Believe, Thinking, Doctors

  "Joe Romm on why climate change is a winning political strategy". Interview with Chris Mooney, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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