Quotes about Obligation
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
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
— Anne Lamott
Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
— John Ortberg
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Sex understood in the modern way is Eros-love severed from responsibility; it is desire without obligation. Because it is lawless desire, it is therefore Godless desire. That is why eroticism and atheism always go together.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
— John Foxe