#obligation — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Jane Fonda

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. You’re just not free anymore to do what you want to do. And it’s not the same again. Ever.

Jane Fonda (b. 1937) American actress and activist
Interview (1980-11-28) by Danae Brook, “At Home with Tom and Jane,” Los Angeles Weekly

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A quotation from Jane Fonda

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. You’re just not free anymore to do what you want to do. And it’s not the same again. Ever.

Jane Fonda (b. 1937) American actress and activist
Interview (1980-11-28) by Danae Brook, “At Home with Tom and Jane,” Los Angeles Weekly

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A quotation from Jane Fonda

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. You’re just not free anymore to do what you want to do. And it’s not the same again. Ever.

Jane Fonda (b. 1937) American actress and activist
Interview (1980-11-28) by Danae Brook, “At Home with Tom and Jane,” Los Angeles Weekly

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A quotation from Jane Fonda

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. You’re just not free anymore to do what you want to do. And it’s not the same again. Ever.

Jane Fonda (b. 1937) American actress and activist
Interview (1980-11-28) by Danae Brook, “At Home with Tom and Jane,” Los Angeles Weekly

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https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/149748/ La Suisse pourrait se doter d’un PACS pour toutes et tous #Business #commission #Économie #Economy #enfant #famille #Mariage #obligation #pacs #Politique #Société #Suisse

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/un-vote-support-icj-world-court-climate-change-opinion; https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules. "The #UN [General Assembly] has voted 141-8 to adopt a #resolution backing [an ICJ] opinion that #countries have a #legal #obligation to address #climatechange, with the #US - which is the world’s biggest historical emitter - among the small group opposing it... 28 countries abstained... The US joined #SaudiArabia, #Russia, #Israel, #Iran, #Yemen, #Liberia & #Belarus in opposing the resolution on Wednesday."

Those in the highest positions of #service have highest #obligation, cuz it's not authority, cuz we are the #authority that granted opportunity to perform service & we're going to prove that shit real soon. This does not stand. MAGA does not stand. JOHN #ROBERTS IS A #CRIMINAL. PROSECUTE #SCOTUS.

A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethcadystanton #accountability #children #duty #filialduty #gratitude #obligation #offspring #parenting #parents

A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethcadystanton #accountability #children #duty #filialduty #gratitude #obligation #offspring #parenting #parents

A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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Spain’s property Imputed Income tax – Every non-resident property owner’s annual obligation

You have a second home in Spain and haven’t rented it out. It sat empty most of the…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #annual #every #imputed #income #nonresident #obligation #owners #property #spains #Tax
https://www.europesays.com/spain/17350/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/939685/ Spain’s property Imputed Income tax – Every non-resident property owner’s annual obligation #Annual #EU #Europe #every #imputed #income #nonresident #obligation #Owners #property #Spain #spains #Tax

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/111061/ Faut-il restreindre ou non l’accès au service civil? La population tranchera dans les urnes #Actualités #Conflit #ConflitArmé #ConseilFédéralSuisse #débat #Défense #ElectionsFédéralesSuisses #ForcesArmées #Gouvernement #Guerre #GuerreEtPaix #GuyParmelin #militaire #News #obligation #Parlement #Politique #population #protection #Référendum #ServiceMilitaire #Suisse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

CARA Must Pursue Hague Convention Compliance Before Issuing NOC For Inter-Country Adoptions: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that the…
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https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/4745/

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/95735/ Podcast – Armée ou service civil : deux jeunes Suisses débattent #ArméeDeTerreDeLaRépubliqueDeCorée #Défense #ForcesArmées #Gouvernement #obligation #podcast #Politique #réforme #ServiceMilitaire #Suisse #twist

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/91773/ Plus de 145’000 signatures pour l’initiative pour une place financière suisse durable #Business #ChangementClimatique #Climat #Économie #ÉconomieEtFinances #Economy #Elections #Environnement #étranger #initiative #InitiativePopulaire #obligation #PlaceFinancière #Politique #protection #Suisse

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to “demand” its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Introduction (1977)

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https://www.europesays.com/fr/837993/ Bulletin N°3 bis – Mars 2026 #bronchiolite #FR #France #Grippe #Health #mélange #obligation #Santé #vrs

#obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

- French: obligation

- German: verpflichtung

- Italian: obbligo

- Portuguese: obrigação

- Spanish: obligación

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A daily challenge to chain words together @ https://wordwallgame.com

https://www.europesays.com/fr/773704/ Bulletin N°3 – Mars 2026 #bronchiolite #FR #France #Grippe #Health #mélange #obligation #Santé #vrs

https://www.europesays.com/africa/94599/ Grand Mufti of Libya: Liberating Palestine and Assisting the People of Gaza Is a Religious Obligation #à #Al #and #approaches #as #Assisting #called #forget #Gaza #Ghariani #grand #holy #is #Liberating #Libya #month #Mufti #muslims #not #Obligation #of #on #Palestine #People #Ramadan #religious #Sadiq #Sheikh #the #to #worldwide

https://www.europesays.com/fr/720795/ L’UE a-t-elle fait une erreur ? Les fabricants n’ont aucune obligation sur les mises à jour du système d’exploitation #Actualités #atelle #aucune #dexploitation #erreur #EU #europe #EuropeanUnion #fabricants #fait #FR #France #jour #l’UE #les #mises #n'ont #News #obligation #RépubliqueFrançaise #sur #système #UE #une #UnionEuropéenne

not afraid of #commitment im afraid of #obligation

DGT clarifies obligation to register electric scooters in Spain in 2026 https://www.byteseu.com/1662905/ #2026 #clarifies #dgt #for #obligation #registration #scooters #Spain

https://www.europesays.com/uk/655806/ DGT clarifies obligation to register electric scooters in Spain in 2026 #2026 #clarifies #dgt #EU #Europe #for #obligation #registration #Scooters #Spain

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”*…

From Colin Gorrie, how our world also shapes our language– and in the example he uses, also our sense of duty…

Debt is old. It’s older than writing. The first writing system, Sumerian cuneiform, evolved out of marks used for accounting. From the beginning, writing was used to track who had what, and, crucially, who owed what to whom.

The influence of debt also extends to language more generally. In many languages, including English, the experiences of owing and being owed provided the blueprint for more abstract notions of duty, necessity, and obligation.

Words meaning ‘to owe’ developed into abstract expressions of obligation so often that it’s useful to have a name for the phenomenon. I call it the owe-to-ought pipeline, named after one of the clearest cases of this development. The word ought is, in fact, nothing but the old past tense form of owe.

This pipeline shows us something about how language changes and develops over time. First, it shows how easily words can slide from one meaning to another, although that’ll be no surprise to anyone who has watched the development of slang over a few decades.

The more important lesson owe-to-ought teaches us has to do with where grammar comes from. Wait, don’t run away! This isn’t a grammar lesson. What I want to show you is how languages create grammar — a collection of abstract meanings such as plurality and verb tense — out of the concrete realities of our shared human experience.

And what human experience is more common than debt?

This is the story of three families of words: owe, should, and the word debt itself. Understand these three families, and you’ll understand how the English language built its way of expressing duty, necessity, and obligation — not to mention guilt and sin — out of the raw materials of accounting…

A case study in how our vocabulary (and our sense of obligation) evolved: “How debt shaped the way we speak,” from @colingorrie.bsky.social.

* Rita Mae Brown

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As we acknowledge our antecedents, we might recall that it was on this date in 1950 that Rose Marie Reid was granted one of her several patents, US2535018A. A swimwear designer and manufacturer, Reid has already been the first swimsuit designer to use inner brassieres, tummy-tuck panels, stay-down legs, elastic banding, brief skirts, and foundation garments in swimwear, and the first designer to introduce dress sizes in swimwear, designing swimwear for multiple sizes and types of bodies, rather than just producing one standard size. This patent was, in its way, even more revolutionary– it was for a one-piece bathing suit made of elastic fabric “embodying a novel construction for causing it to snugly fit the body of a wearer in a flattering manner [that would] shape and support portions of the body of the wearer in areas of the bust and abdomen in a flattering manner without discomfort or impedance to free movements of the body.” The elastic fabric and elastic securing bands were designed to enable the garment to be put on without having buttoned openings which would “detract from the appearance of the garment.”

Reid assigned her patent to her company and enjoyed huge sales success, in part due to her impact in Hollywood and the motion picture industry. Famous screen actresses (e,g, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Rhonda Fleming) wore her swimsuits. And her suits also appeared in several California beach party films from the late 1950s and the early 1960s, including Gidget, Muscle Beach Party, and Where the Boys Are.

https://www.europesays.com/fr/581543/ L’UE inflige une amende de 120 millions à X et suscite l’ire de Washington #Actualités #Amende #attaque #contenu #diplomatie #ElonMusk #EU #europe #EuropeanUnion #FR #France #J.D.Vance #MarcoRubio #médias #Monde #News #obligation #politique #RelationsInternationales #RépubliqueFrançaise #RéseauxSociaux #UE #UnionEuropéenne #utilisateur #Washington

How things we can enjoy can turn into an obligation. https://crystaltouchton.com/obligation/
#blog #obligation #hobbies #interests #pause #avoid

#obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

- French: obligation

- German: verpflichtung

- Italian: obbligo

- Portuguese: obrigação

- Spanish: obligación

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A daily challenge to chain words together @ https://wordwallgame.com

The #ScottRossi s of the internet - yt supremacist librals of the #Fediverse - and their so called queer affinity group will demonize me for using her funds to keep her housed and fed even as it's not enough just to wash their hands of their human #obligation to coexist with other humans

I see it everyday the #Blue scapegoating the #Red because the Reps are #capitalism 's little golden child and everyone just keeping agreements with the #DeathMachine

Coporate simps crying about being human

The #ScottRossi s of the internet - yt supremacist librals of the #Fediverse - and their so called queer affinity group will demonize me for using her funds to keep her housed and fed even as it's not enough just to wash their hands of their human #obligation to coexist with other humans

I see it everyday the #Blue scapegoating the #Red because the Reps are #capitalism 's little golden child and everyone just keeping agreements with the #DeathMachine

Coporate simps crying about being human

The #ScottRossi s of the internet - yt supremacist librals of the #Fediverse - and their so called queer affinity group will demonize me for using her funds to keep her housed and fed even as it's not enough just to wash their hands of their human #obligation to coexist with other humans

I see it everyday the #Blue scapegoating the #Red because the Reps are #capitalism 's little golden child and everyone just keeping agreements with the #DeathMachine

Coporate simps crying about being human

The #ScottRossi s of the internet - yt supremacist librals of the #Fediverse - and their so called queer affinity group will demonize me for using her funds to keep her housed and fed even as it's not enough just to wash their hands of their human #obligation to coexist with other humans

I see it everyday the #Blue scapegoating the #Red because the Reps are #capitalism 's little golden child and everyone just keeping agreements with the #DeathMachine

Coporate simps crying about being human

The #ScottRossi s of the internet - yt supremacist librals of the #Fediverse - and their so called queer affinity group will demonize me for using her funds to keep her housed and fed even as it's not enough just to wash their hands of their human #obligation to coexist with other humans

I see it everyday the #Blue scapegoating the #Red because the Reps are #capitalism 's little golden child and everyone just keeping agreements with the #DeathMachine

Coporate simps crying about being human

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

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A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

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A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

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A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering

A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering