Quotes On Social Obligations

#1. Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

M.F.K. Fisher

#2. Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

Barbara Walters

#3. One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

George Carlin

#4. It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Lee R. Raymond

#5. My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Thomas Steinbeck

#6. It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

Erik Larson

#8. Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Anne Roe

#9. I simply refuse to deal with idiots ... It has cut my social obligations in half.

Julia Quinn

#10. One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.

Carola Dunn

#11. Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. Because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a
friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive
politeness.

Marcel Proust

#13. The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#14. The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

Brooks Atkinson

#15. Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you're dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing.

Josh Langley

#16. Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

David Robinson

#17. Life is a theater, you can choose to play the part of the strong, determined, winner or the weak, fearful loser. The choice is yours.

Stella Oladiran

#18. To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike

#19. Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Dennis Kucinich

#20. Love all your different sides, only then will immortality come to you.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Do not permit social, public or human obligations to rob you of your prayer life.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land

Aldo Leopold

#24. I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

Laurie Simmons

#25. Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.

Dave Pasch

#26. Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#27. I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

Howard Zinn

#28. There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

Mary Oliver

#29. Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

Grace Napolitano

#30. I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

Mike Huckabee

#31. Delicacy in woman is strength.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Michael Polanyi

#33. Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Elbert Hubbard

#34. Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

George Noory

#35. Breathing is the master key of life.

Ilchi Lee

#36. Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

Addison Wiggin

#37. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt

#38. America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

Bill Johnson

#39. Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Leroy Hood

#40. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.

Mahatma Gandhi