Pastoral Resources

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

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.

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

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.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.