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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life. — Anthony Liccione

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He always refused, knowing that any new space would immediately be an excuse to go out and buy more useless stuff with which to fill it. — Fredrik Backman

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility — Grant Cardone

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. — John D. Rockefeller

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself. — Malachy McCourt

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. — Edmund Burke

It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path. — Angela Merkel

What then is your duty? What the day demands. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force. — Ashim Shanker

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. — Gillian Armstrong

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. — William Rounseville Alger

You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures. — Gene Robinson

Missionary work is a priesthood duty - an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much. — Thomas S. Monson

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] — John F. Kennedy

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation. — Warren G. Bennis

It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you. — Tina Fey

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want. — Holly Black

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly. — Steve Ballmer

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. — Bill Gates

I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper. — Erik Larson

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. — Thomas Love Peacock

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. — Robert A. Heinlein

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. — Arthur Helps

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer. — Bernice Morgan

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation. — Robin Hobb

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty. — Abraham Lincoln

We dream every night, all the time. — Stephen LaBerge

Drink a cup of herbal tea, if you like. Listen to some soft classical music and prepare yourself to drift — Robin S. Sharma

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more. — Orson Scott Card

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation. — Adoniram Judson

The only obligation I recognize in this world is my duty to my immediate family — H.L. Mencken

Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility. — Debasish Mridha

There aren't any hard women, only soft men. — Raquel Welch

A travesty of epic proportions," Tock agreed. "How much you wanna bet they couldn't even turn the computer on? — T.J. Klune

Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action.... — G.E. Moore

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged. — Rebecca Solnit