#oblige

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#before #board #every #existence #five

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#christian #communist #i #i am #me

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#believe #endowed #feel #forgo #god

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#certain #corporation #free #i #make

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love. ↗

— Ignatius Loyola

#blessed #considering #consists #creator #god

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#most #obliged #people #service #value

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#obliged #possibilities #stick #truth