Quotes about Obligation
I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.
- Henry David Thoreau
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
- Rowan Williams
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
- Adrian Rogers
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
- Abraham Lincoln
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
- Audrey Hepburn
Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.
- Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Elbert Hubbard
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
- Elie Wiesel