#obliged

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. ↗

— Caroline Nichols Churchill

#brutal #divine #drink #had #less

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#as far as #case #far #join #lies

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor. ↗

— William Bligh

#anchor #company #following #helen #months

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗

— James Buchan

#economic #events #forgotten #getting #getting older