The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential.
Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.
I have to understand how we are going to market the movie. We view marketing as an extension of content creation... Every time a consumer sees our movie, in whatever form, our obligation is to entertain the audience.
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
