“To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.” IfsShouldIdeasFactsSufferingWishForeverOur LivesSourceEternalUnhappyObligationUnbearableEternal LifeLive Forever Author:Claude Vorilhon
“I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtWishDifficultDemocracyGoes OnArt IsAddDemocraticObligationVersusElitism Author:Geoffrey Hill
“It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.” PeopleIfsShouldFirstsStatesGovernmentWould BeTodaySchoolCoursesWishUnitedRaceEducationClassUnited StatesTeacherBasesInstitutionsAssumingUniversityObligationAfrican AmericanPrimariesEstablishmentBetter OffFittingMaintenanceFirst ClassPrimary SchoolUniversity Education Author:William Howard Taft