Right therefore and obligation are, as logicians express it, correllative terms; one of these ideas necessarily supposes the other; and we cannot conceive a right without a corresponding obligation.
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
The true source of rights is duty.
You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'
Duty, recognizing an individual's subordination to community welfare, is as important as rights ...
In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.
