Quotes about Obligation
Darwinists say they're under some sort of epistemological obligation to continue trying, because to invoke design would be to give up on science. Well, I say it's time to redefine science. We should not be looking for only the best naturalistic explanation, but the best explanation, period. And intelligent design is the explanation that's most in conformity with how the world works.
— Lee Strobel
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
— Wayne Dyer
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
— Albert Einstein
It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.
— Aldous Huxley
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
For every promise, there is price to pay.
— Jim Rohn
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
— Adoniram Judson
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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
— Origen
Happy my lot in life if my desire coincides with my duty, and conversely; and most people's task in life is exactly to stay under their obligation, and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world?
— Soren Kierkegaard