Mutual Obligation Quotes

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

I know that men are not equal; nowhere on the earth or in Nature is there equality—there is variety .... The natural variety must be organized through the division and gradation of functions and work; no organization of men is possible without superiors and subordinates, but it must just be an organization, and not a privilege, not aristocratic coercion but mutual service.

Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction: we'll give you something, but we demand something back; the way he would phrase it is, 'We'll give you opportunity, but you have to take responsibility.'

Mr. Adams, you may with great truth, assure the United States that whenever they shall fulfill the treaty on their part, I, on my part, will fulfill it in all its particulars.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.

Citizenship is not a transaction where you put your taxes in and take your services out. It is a relationship.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Make no contracts that will bind me.

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility …

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

That is how our nation has been built - by a partnership between citizen and government, between individual and society, between a family and the wider community.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Divided responsibility is no responsibility.

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.