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  • Obligations may be universal or particular. -- Tom G. Palmer
  • Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. -- Jean Anouilh
  • Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. -- Susan Faludi
  • It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. -- Lou Holtz
  • It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. -- Nicos Anastasiades
  • Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. -- Simon Wiesenthal
  • Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life. -- Michael Jordan
  • Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. -- J. William Fulbright
  • The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. -- Ron Paul
  • Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. -- Humphry Davy
  • The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. -- Adam Weishaupt
  • What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families. -- Joe Paterno
  • We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? -- Thomas Pogge
  • On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. -- Dan Lipinski
  • America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. -- Bill Johnson
  • Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. -- Peter Welch
  • Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. -- Noam Chomsky
  • He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. -- Samuel Adams
  • What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. -- Joyce Meyer
  • I have a lot of obligations. -- Isaac Mizrahi
  • Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality. -- Lajos Kossuth
  • Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football. -- Vidal Sassoon
  • Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations. -- Zig Ziglar
  • There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations. -- Aesop
  • True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq. -- Traian Basescu
  • The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry. -- William Howard Taft
  • The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations -- Aldo Leopold
  • We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals. -- Gary L. Francione
  • Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations. -- Mason Cooley
  • I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. -- Jean Anouilh
  • The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. -- Agnes Repplier
  • Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. -- Sallust
  • Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation. -- Billy Joel
  • You born with three obligations: to love, to live, and to be happy. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder. -- Caroline Hanson
  • I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical. -- Herman Melville
  • Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. -- Martin L. Gross
  • When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt. -- Edwin Black
  • Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern. -- Al Gore
  • Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. -- Lou Holtz
  • All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. -- Albert Camus
  • Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams -- David McCullough
  • We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations. -- Gerard Arpey
  • One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. -- Edith Wharton
  • When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. -- H. Rap Brown
  • A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. -- William Feather
  • The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. -- Moshe Katsav
  • Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
  • I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. -- Martha Reeves
  • The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion. -- John Adams
  • The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
  • You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
  • The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. -- George W. Bush
  • We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. -- Ricardo Lagos
  • Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. -- Dennis Prager
  • Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042. -- Grace Napolitano
  • My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities. -- Sylvia Kristel
  • The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. -- Ezra Stiles
  • I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos. -- Al-Saadi Gaddafi
  • Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war. -- Kirby Page
  • RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose "? or you can decide now to choose them. -- Robert Breault
  • We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. -- Barack Obama
  • I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. -- Alex J. Morrison
  • Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. -- Sarah Vowell
  • Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited. -- Barack Obama
  • I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. -- Alex J. Morrison
  • Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. -- Michael Polanyi
  • There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left. -- Salvador Allende
  • I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. -- Carre Otis
  • Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations. -- M. F. K. Fisher
  • I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. -- Edward Abbey
  • Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage. -- Jean Chatzky
  • For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted. -- David McNally
  • In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. -- Lucretia Mott
  • We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States. -- J. William Fulbright
  • What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others. -- Alain de Botton
  • Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. -- Ayn Rand
  • Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations. -- Anne Roe
  • Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. -- William Gilmore Simms
  • Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. -- Addison Wiggin
  • Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. -- Tom G. Palmer
  • The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. -- Arthur Henderson
  • It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. -- Lee R. Raymond
  • Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ... -- Phyllis McGinley
  • 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
  • Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. -- Benjamin Rush
  • When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives. -- Anne Katherine
  • When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest. -- Charles Schumer
  • [American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations -- Barack Obama
  • Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. -- Ulysses S. Grant
  • To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. -- Tom G. Palmer
  • Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. -- Vaclav Havel
  • France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
  • The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities. -- Clarence Thomas
  • I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in. -- Neil Simon
  • I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations. -- Bernard Arnault
  • Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. -- William Gilmore Simms
  • One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired. -- George Carlin
  • Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy. -- Helen Garner
  • Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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