Obligation Quotes – Insightful Sayings and Reflections

A curated collection of obligation quotes highlighting the concept’s impact on personal and social responsibilities across various contexts.

This collection of obligation quotes offers diverse perspectives on how obligations influence individual behavior and societal interactions. The sayings span from personal duties to broader social commitments. They illustrate the role of obligation in shaping decisions and responsibilities. These quotes encourage reflection on the balance between freedom and duty. They provide thoughtful insights into the nature of commitments and external demands within everyday life.

"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

Robert A. Heinlein

"But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The world is a prison whose walls we have built ourselves."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"You can take everything from a person. Everything except the last human freedom: the freedom to choose your own attitude and your own path, no matter how hard the external circumstances may be"

Viktor Frankl