All 16 Uses of
obligation
in
Atlas Shrugged
- No obligation on your part.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- That was your trust, your obligation, your responsibility.†
Chpt 1.10
- And because, were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels-she was able to run down the platform and to see the face of the stationmaster when she found him-she was able to order: "Hold Number 57 for me!"†
Chpt 1.10
- Can't you be strong enough to fulfill your obligation and to perform a husband's duty?†
Chpt 2.2
- Don't you want to have me as one of your men under obligation?†
Chpt 2.2
- It was a contract, an obligation!†
Chpt 2.5
- An obligation?†
Chpt 2.5
- There aren't any obligations, except the necessity of the moment.†
Chpt 2.5
- He had never been afraid of burdens, because he had known his ability to carry them, and he had never assumed an obligation unless he was certain that he could fulfill it.†
Chpt 2.7
- That which others claimed to feel at the sight of the stars-stars safely distant by millions of years and thus imposing no obligation to act, but serving as the tinsel of futility-she had felt at the sight of electric bulbs lighting the streets of a town.†
Chpt 2.10
- That's the first obligation of any wife-and of a woman in your position in particular!†
Chpt 3.4
- He remembered the austerely pitiless respect he had felt for his contract of marriage, for all his contracts and all his legal obligations-and he saw what sort of legality his scrupulous observance was expected to serve.†
Chpt 3.5
- I will not assume obligations that I can't fulfill.†
Chpt 3.6
- Do you ask what moral obligation I owe to my fellow men?†
Chpt 3.7
- None-except the obligation I owe to myself, to material objects and to all of existence: rationality.†
Chpt 3.7
- It will give more freedom to the individual and strengthen the bonds of collective obligations.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
a duty