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Binding Quotes

What binds people, beliefs, and promises together.

This collection of binding quotes explores commitments that hold, from personal consistency to the quieter bonds formed between people through shared struggle. Related reading: our Business quotes.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he...

Quotes by Tiberius

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Quotes by Theodore White

Always Quotes

A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

Quotes by Rufus King

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is...

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.

Quotes by Peter Abelard

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

America Quotes

It is true that I have conducted and do conduct business discussions in an informal environment form time to time. However I don't just turn up to a venue with someone and negotiate a binding agreement over few hours over...

Quotes by Mike Ashley

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is...

Quotes by Lysander Spooner

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal...

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much...

Quotes by Ken Howard

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

Quotes by John Polanyi

American Quotes

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it...

Quotes by John Edward Redmond

A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent...

Quotes by Jerome Powell

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

Quotes by J. Paul Getty

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Quotes by Irving Babbitt

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Quotes by Hjalmar Branting

Business Quotes

There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.

Quotes by Hassan Nasrallah

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'binding' mean across these quotes?
It ranges from formal or legal-sounding commitments to the informal, emotional glue that keeps families and communities connected through shared difficulty.
Is there a quote about ancient beliefs?
Yes, one reflects on old mythology, noting it carried no real binding force over the people who once practiced it.
Do any quotes describe binding in a political sense?
One sample describes a certain kind of civic loyalty as functioning almost like an unofficial shared religion, binding people together informally.
Is consistency part of this theme?
Yes, one voice commits to staying consistent in behavior, treating that personal steadiness as its own kind of binding promise to others.
How does this connect to Business quotes?
Since commitment and trust matter in professional settings too, our Business quotes offer a related angle on the same idea.

Whether describing an unofficial civic loyalty or the everyday glue that keeps relationships together, these lines treat binding as something felt as much as declared. See also our America and Always quotes.