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Obliged Quotes

The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most Picture Quote #1

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one’s journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination Picture Quote #1

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d’état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way Picture Quote #1

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate Picture Quote #1

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention Picture Quote #1

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated Picture Quote #1

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If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts Picture Quote #1

I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don’t want to be obliged to accept someone else’s faith as a factor in my government Picture Quote #1

I don’t see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don’t work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live Picture Quote #1

... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it.... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power Picture Quote #1

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists Picture Quote #1

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth Picture Quote #1

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If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! Picture Quote #1

The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly Picture Quote #1

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do Picture Quote #1

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person’s house Picture Quote #1

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately Picture Quote #1

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent Picture Quote #1

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That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself Picture Quote #1

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader Picture Quote #1

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel Picture Quote #1

How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not Picture Quote #1

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict Picture Quote #1

Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It’s also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people Picture Quote #1

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We can’t know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it Picture Quote #1

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be Picture Quote #1

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude Picture Quote #1

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner Picture Quote #1

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world Picture Quote #1

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on Picture Quote #1

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The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most (Obliged Quotes) From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one’s journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination (Obliged Quotes) Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d’état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way (Obliged Quotes) I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate (Obliged Quotes) We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention (Obliged Quotes) He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated (Obliged Quotes) If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts (Obliged Quotes) I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don’t want to be obliged to accept someone else’s faith as a factor in my government (Obliged Quotes) I don’t see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don’t work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live (Obliged Quotes) ... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it.... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power (Obliged Quotes) One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists (Obliged Quotes) The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth (Obliged Quotes) If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! (Obliged Quotes) The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly (Obliged Quotes) The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do (Obliged Quotes) Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person’s house (Obliged Quotes) A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately (Obliged Quotes) In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent (Obliged Quotes) That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself (Obliged Quotes) I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader (Obliged Quotes) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel (Obliged Quotes) How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not (Obliged Quotes) Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict (Obliged Quotes) Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It’s also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people (Obliged Quotes) We can’t know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it (Obliged Quotes) Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be (Obliged Quotes) I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude (Obliged Quotes) Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner (Obliged Quotes) The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world (Obliged Quotes) I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on (Obliged Quotes)

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