I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Richard Steele

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the Great

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
Barbara Steele

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

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
Alexander Alekhine

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

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
James Bovard

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Robert Purvis

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
James Cash Penney

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
Len Wein

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

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

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

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

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker

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