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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims. -- Abu Bakr
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. -- Theodore Bikel
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world. -- Jeffrey Toobin
We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory. -- Walid Jumblatt
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all. -- Rocco Buttiglione
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. -- Thomas Aquinas
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful. -- John Cusack
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions. -- Lysander Spooner
If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars. -- Blake Mycoskie
Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children. -- Brad Sherman
I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me. -- James Spader
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do. -- Nancy Gibbs
Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau. -- Robert Gottlieb
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics. -- Charlie Trotter
The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age. -- Lysander Spooner
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens. -- Rose George
It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that. -- Brandi Carlile
What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. -- Milton Friedman
It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman. -- Ibn Majah
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all. -- Megan McCafferty
Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim. -- Idries Shah
English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones. -- Maureen Johnson
By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory. -- R. C. Sproul
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. -- Germaine Greer
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. -- C. S. Lewis
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist. -- Anton Chekhov
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all. -- George Washington
By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective. -- Karen Armstrong
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them. -- Ivan Illich
The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be. -- Harriet Lerner
There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening. -- Noam Chomsky
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. -- Lewis H. Lapham
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all -- Rocco Buttiglione

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