100 Quotes About Obligation

They smiled awkwardly and hugged again. Rosalind thought briefly to ask when they'd stopped being necessary to each other, when she had become another obligation to fill like their parents or Polly.

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die," Sister Berry snapped.

Understand each other's obligation. You maybe quick in judging but remember that they also have to strive for what they need. Life here is not for free, you have to work hard for it.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

To refer everything to a "plurality of ethical commitments" means that we make no demands on anyone and acknowledge no one's right to make any demands on ourselves. The suspension of judgment logically condemns us to solitude. Unlesswe are prepared to make demands on one another, we can enjoy only the most rudimentary kind of common life.

Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?You answered...I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act.You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.