Obliged Quotes - Page 8

• Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Believe, Islam

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• I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

  Robert Browning

  Book, People, Feelings

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.267, e-artnow sro

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• A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Abuse, Borders

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.98

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• Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

  Jack Vance

  Conoce

  Jack Vance (1965). “The Dragon Masters”, p.48, Spatterlight Press

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• I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

  George Sarton

  Men, Killing, Reader

  George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  José Saramago

  Senior, Morning, Mean

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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• I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Good Man, Example, Waste

  "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work". Book by G. H. Hardy, 1940.

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• I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dark, Emotional, Cinema

  Peter Greenaway (1999). "Ocho mujeres y media", Dis Voir Editions

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• El artista está obligado a inventar el yo que pintará sus cuadros.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Self, Paint

  "Art & Other Serious Matters" de Harold Rosenberg, University of Chicago Press, (p. 191), 1985.

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• Lo que siempre he pensado de René Lévesque es que, si hubiera decidido ahorcarme, incluso al tensar la cuerda alrededor de mi cuello, se habría quejado de lo humillante que era para él abrir la trampilla. Y luego, una vez colgado, culparía a mi fantasma de haberle obligado a asesinar, imponiendo así un sentimiento de culpabilidad a un francófono dulce, pagado de sí mismo y oprimido.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• ¿Se mueven paralelamente las estructuras del lenguaje y las estructuras de la realidad? ¿Permanece la realidad esencialmente fuera del lenguaje, separada, obstinada, ajena, no susceptible de descripción? ¿Es imposible una correspondencia exacta y vital entre lo que es y nuestra percepción de ello? ¿O es que estamos obligados a utilizar el lenguaje sólo para oscurecer y distorsionar la realidad -para distorsionar lo que sucede- porque le tememos?

  Harold Pinter

  Mudanza, Media, Realidad

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• In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Arte, Medio, Ojo

  "Journal of Delacroix". Book by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p.334, 1980.

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• Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

  Chanakya

  House, Youth, Painful

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• Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

  Martin Amis

  Mean, America, Illusion

  Martin Amis (2004). “Vintage Amis”, Vintage

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• He llegado a creer ... que el escenario puede hacer más que enseñar, que gran parte de nuestra instrucción moral actual no resistirá la prueba de ser moldeada en un molde realista, y cuando se presente en forma dramática se revelará como banal y efímera. Lo que puede haber sonado como una enseñanza justa cuando era remota y prolija, será cuestionada de nuevo cuando se vea obligada a simular la vida misma.

  Jane Addams

  Creer, Enseñar, Moldear

  Jane Addams (2016). "Veinte años en Hull House", p.237, Open Road Media.

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• Después de todo, ¿qué ha mantenido a la raza humana en este viejo globo, a pesar de todas las calamidades de la naturaleza y todos los trágicos fracasos de la humanidad, sino la fe en nuevas posibilidades y el valor para defenderlas? Sin duda, muchas veces estas nuevas posibilidades fueron declaradas por un hombre que, totalmente inconsciente de valor, llevaba el "sentimiento de ser un exiliado, un criminal condenado, un fugitivo de la humanidad". ¿Se sentía así todo aquel que, para recorrer su propio camino, se había visto obligado a abandonar la carretera tradicional?

  Jane Addams

  Hombres, raza, orden

  Jane Addams (2010). "Peace and Bread in Time of War", p.85, University of Illinois Press.

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• Lo que podía parecer una enseñanza justa cuando era remota y farragosa, volverá a cuestionarse cuando se vea obligada a simular la vida misma.

  Jane Addams

  Enseñanza, Mayo, Justos

  Jane Addams (1949). "Veinte años en Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes", p.203, Hayes Barton Press

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• We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

  Jane Addams

  Intellectual, Done, Spheres

  Jane Addams (2016). "Democracia y ética social", p.128, Youcanprint.

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• La artista, que debe aventurarse en el estudio y arriesgar allí, y luego aventurarse en el mercado y arriesgar de nuevo, está obligada a aprender cómo funcionan sus defensas, para poder bajar y subir la guardia al instante.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Risk, Venture

  Eric Maisel (1996). "Afirmaciones para artistas", Tarcher

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• The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Taken, Animal

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1956). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.431, Prabhat Prakashan

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• To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Country, Two, Use

  Fuente: dhakadigest.net

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• Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Art, Fighting, Other Cultures

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• You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Input

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged to. I think that's a very appealing thing, for an audience and just in life. I like the idea that something will say nothing, and then get straight to the point. That feels like how your heroes should be.

  Steven Knight

  Héroe, Carácter, Pensamiento

  Fuente: collider.com

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• In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

  José Stalin

  Quality, Needs, Socialist

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