Obliged Quotes - Page 9

• There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

  Daniel Dennett

  Rude, Politeness

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• If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.

  E.C. Riegel

  Peace, War, Mean

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• During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

  George Crook

  Strong, Use, Engagement

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• As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teacher, Pay, Attention

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• Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Sweet, Jesus, Keys

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• We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

  Mark Strand

  Life, Thinking, Pay

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• Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Christian, Praying, Murder

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• The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Idols, Arses, Thrones

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  England And America, Law, Giving

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.235, Bantam Classics

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• All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

  Francois Truffaut

  Lying, Misunderstood, Directors

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• Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

  Moshe Dayan

  Israel, Independence, Limits

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• For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.

  Francis Darwin

  Book, Cutting, Science

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• Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Strong, Hero, Science

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• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, Imitation, Resolve

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.158

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• In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Bishops, Servant

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• What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Mind, Needs

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• Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

  John Cage

  Hunting, Mushrooms, Ideas

  John Cage (2012). “El libro de las setas”, p.56, Univ de Castilla La Mancha

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• If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Law, Class

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• You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

  Toni Morrison

  "Home". Book by Toni Morrison, May 8, 2012.

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• All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Men, Secret

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.109, Macmillan

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• If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Men, Order

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Jesus, Gentleman

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• I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.

  Jack Germond

  Atheist, Government, Adults

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• You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

  Austin O'Malley

  God, Clothes, Evening

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• I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Violence, Renounce

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