Obliged Quotes

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

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.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.

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.

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

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

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.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

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.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

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

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

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

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.

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

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.