It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone Weil

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
Bill Owens

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
Stephen Harper

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Cat Stevens

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
Jude Law

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.
Louis Freeh

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
Richard Perle

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
Tobias Wolff

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
Bobby Scott

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto Moravia

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow

Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
Tom Brokaw

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Elie Wiesel

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
James Cromwell

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer