Obligation Quotes - Page 39

• An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

  C. S. Lewis

  Feelings, Feels, Freeze

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

  Jack Lemmon

  Dream, Choices, Enough

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• Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him.

  Philip Doddridge

  Believe, Views, Soul

  Philip Doddridge (1825). “The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul: Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses”, p.21

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• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Wise, Country

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

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• No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.

  Woody Allen

  Football, Beer, Games

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• Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Children, Military

  Letter to the German rulers (1524) in "The History of Compulsory Education in New England" by John William Perrin, 1896.

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• The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Spiritual, Views, Foundation

  "A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture". Book by Sushama Londhe, 2008.

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Feminism, Activism

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

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• The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sight, Add, Covenant

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.130

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• Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

  Billy Joel

  Needs, Illusion, Stimulation

  Song: Streetlife Serenader, Album: Streetlife Serenade, 1974

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• We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

  J. William Fulbright

  Organization, Would Be, Fundamentals

  "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1965.

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• There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.

  Edmund White

  Gay, Men, People

  Publishers Weekly, September 24, 1982.

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• Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Children, Men

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.24, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate--especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest... A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity--and an obligation.

  Warren Farrell

  Opportunity, People, Getting High

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• Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. This commission was as extensive as possible, and laid them under obligation to disperse themselves into every country of the habitable globe, and preach to all the inhabitants, without exception, or limitation. They accordingly went forth in obedience to the command, and the power of God evidently wrought with them.

  William Carey

  Country, Jesus, Departure

  William Carey (1792). “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,”, p.7

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• Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Children, House, Action

  Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1845). “Sermons of John-Baptist Massillon, Bishop of Clermon, to which is prefixed the life of the author, from the last London edition”, p.122

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• However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

  Ronald Fisher

  Doe, Lines, Approach

  Ronald Fisher's letter to L. Hogben (February 25, 1933) as quoted in "Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics", book edited by J. H. Bennett, 1983.

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• I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

  Denzel Washington

  Please Me, Play, Consistency

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Joy, Miracle, World

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "President Clinton Accepts Renomination at 1996 Democratic National Convention". archives.nbclearn.com. August 30, 1996.

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• 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, Years, Way

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• The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

  Bertie Ahern

  Integrity, Needs, Guarantees

  "Turning the Tables on McDowell". www.irishtimes.com. September 28, 2006.

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• We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Believe, Judging, Personality

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• When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of everyone around us, who then affect others. Our only obligation is to be the love we are and allow our answers to come from within in the way that's most appropriate for us.

  Anita Moorjani

  Answers, Way, Instruments

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.185, Hay House, Inc

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• We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.

  Anita Moorjani

  Giving, Guilt, Born

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