#obligation

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

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I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. ↗

— Connie Stevens

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life. ↗

— Dick Murphy

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To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

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I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. ↗

— Carre Otis

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Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Obligations may be universal or particular. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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