Obligation To Help Others Quotes

#1. We have a social responsibility, a constitutional opportunity and a moral obligation to help others.

Janie Lewis

#2. Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

George Pattison

#3. Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Bill Jensen

#4. If you wish to know me,
just ask.

Susie Clevenger

#5. I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Anne Lamott

#6. There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Dave Van Ronk

#7. People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice, they are only interested in art, not in justice.

Efraim Zuroff

#8. I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

Saxby Chambliss

#9. I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. I think I have now, by God's help, discharged my obligation in writing this large work. Let those who think I have said too little, or those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough join me in giving thanks to God. Amen.

Augustine Of Hippo

#11. Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Bertolt Brecht

#12. We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Lou Holtz

#13. The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Edward FitzGerald

#14. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

John F. Kennedy

#15. Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.

Frances Beinecke

#16. [Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.

Thomas Gresham

#17. The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Condoleezza Rice

#18. I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

Dionne Warwick

#19. The two best experiences are the heady days when the boat is bought - and the day it's sold. Everything between is expenditure.

Jack Owen

#20. It's always you and me." I nodded again and felt my lips quivering. He kept whispering, "Always me and my Sylvie, yeah?" "Yeah," I whispered.

Kristen Ashley

#21. Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.

George Kaiser

#22. they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes.

Philip K. Dick

#23. I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Alice Waters

#24. Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

Jonathan Turley

#25. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.

Avril Carruthers

#26. No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

Martin Luther

#27. But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

Judge Mills Lane

#28. I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Dikembe Mutombo

#29. What you are looking for is what is looking.

Francis Of Assisi

#30. That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

Aubrey Menen

#31. I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Edward Snowden

#32. We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

Bill Murray

#33. I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.

Paul Giamatti

#34. We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.

Thad Cochran

#35. Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

Bayard Rustin

#36. It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#37. There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

John Bolton

#38. My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

David Levithan

#39. The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.

Donald A. Norman

#40. would have recognized the opportunity for a world-class joke, but would never allow myself to be funny at the cost of making somebody else feel like something the cat drug in. Let that be my epitaph. ***

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.