(705 quotes found)
“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
“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort”
Humphrey Davy
“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”
Barack Obama
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune”
Dick Gephardt
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]”
Richard Bach
“Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life”
Elie Wiesel
“Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school”
Ivan Illich
“When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption”
Gregg Easterbrook
