Obliged

Famous quotes containing the word obliged:

“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Art has always been this—pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric—whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)