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Christopher Hitchens - Will Hutton - Amedio Modigliani - Samuel Johnson -

 

 

 

The greatest obligation you have is to keep an open mind.  Christopher Hitchens v Dinesh D’Souza: The God Debate

 

 

While it is correct to insist that rights should be balanced by obligations, there is a dangerous tendency for obligations – to search for work, to save for pensions – to be imposed upon the poor, while rights – to enjoy low marginal rates of tax, to opt out into privileged private education – are voluntarily exercised by the rich.  Will Hutton, The State to Come

 

 

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.  Amedio Modigliani 

 

 

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.  Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets