Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but more importantly violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Insofar as international law is observed it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something that it changes their life that they take it home with them they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

And of all illumination which human reason can give none is comparable to the discovery of what we are our nature our obligations what happiness we are capable of and what are the means of attaining it.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty disease war and famine.

Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.