{"quotes":[{"text":"The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["feelings","obligated","obligation"],"id":4137,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.","author":"Willa Cather","tags":["history","obligation","ruins","sadness","struggle"],"id":7668,"author_id":"Willa+Cather"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["bonds","duties","duty","emancipation","end","freedom","obligation","outcome","reality","release","responsibilities","responsibility","sever","ties","truth"],"id":34730,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["conscience","entitlement","life","living","obligation","peace","rights"],"id":35995,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accusation","apologetics","beautiful","belief","christ","christ-jesus","christian","christianity","criticism","damnation","duty","faith","fear","glorification","god","gratitude","heart","hell","holiness","holiness-of-god","holy","honesty","insincerity","intelligence","jesus","jesus-christ","joy","knowledge","love","mind","motives","obligation","power","praise","purity","reason","relationship","relationship-with-god","righteousness","service","sincerity","skepticism","thankfulness","truth","understanding","universe","wisdom","worship","worthiness","worthy"],"id":44247,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.","author":"Garrett Hardin","tags":["obligation","he","sacrifices "],"id":48085,"author_id":"Garrett+Hardin"},{"text":"[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.","author":"Ellen Cushing","tags":["charity","class","culture","future","noblesse-oblige","obligation","philanthropy","wealth"],"id":51128,"author_id":"Ellen+Cushing"},{"text":"The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["ethics","force","happiness","harm","harm-principle","law","liberty","morality","obligation","prevention","principle","rights","sovereignty"],"id":81632,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["help","motivation","obligation","person","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","psychology","sociology","sociology"],"id":89778,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["families","family","obligation"],"id":98014,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}