Obligation Quotes - Page 27

• The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Art, Struggle, Function

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• Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Country, Military, Real

  Molotov's report on (29 March 1940), after the Polish defeat, as quoted in the weekly Soviet newspaper "Moscow News", published by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, April 1, 1940.

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• Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Real, Heaven, Atheism

  "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.

  Frank Van Dun

  Citizens, Legal System, May

  "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.

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• Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.

  C. Vann Woodward

  War, Expression, Special

  "Free Expression, Peaceful Dissent, and Demonstrations". Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, catalog.yale.edu. January 1975.

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• Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Law, Reason, Gods Will

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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• I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.

  David Niu

  Running, Nice, Stress

  "Entrepreneurs Share 8 Tips To Boost Productivity During Holiday Chaos" by Sujan Patel, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Lying, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.258

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• We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Individual, States

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• I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

  Herman Melville

  Religious, Matter, Cherish

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• I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Perfection, Trying

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• Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Real, Mean, Relative Value

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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• I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.

  Elle Macpherson

  Holiday, America, Agency

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• No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1980*). “Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on atheistic communism: official Vatican text”

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• Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.

  Pope Pius XI

  Foundation, Use, Fundamentals

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• Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

  John Fowles

  Atheist, Choices, Atheism

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.28, Random House

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• Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social obligation. If one is content to know the truth himself, he does not become a votary of Satyagraha. A Satyagrahi should not only know the truth but should insist upon it in social relations. So Satyagraha is activation of truthfulness.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Mean, Exercise, Atheism

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• The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

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• The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Appreciation, Atheism, Way

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• We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Attitude, Priorities

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Church, Next

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• If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

  June Callwood

  Injustice, Spectators, Happens

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• History affords us many instances of the ruin of states,
  by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and
  genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one
  part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, People, Political

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