Responsibility Quotes

The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whol...

For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is...

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea ...

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, t...

Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit ...

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of respon...

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and wome...

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance mea...

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the ne...

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substit...

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got...

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or ...

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that;...

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, fa...

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is on...

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself an...

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities...

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost alway...

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the ...

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs dow...

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged...

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged...

In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom o...

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong ...

Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey...

The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” ...

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I w...

... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.

But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could...

You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to ...

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and ackn...

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you,...

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fea...

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords...

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the de...

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal America...

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people...

When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so?...

The mind of Caesar. It is the reverse of most men's. It rejoices in committing itself. To us arrive ...

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautiou...

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pep...

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If yo...

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face-...

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believer...

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their con...

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-sto...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive what...

... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of ...

. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate ca...

The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beas...

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a bus...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to r...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his ...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a ...

Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on th...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...

What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh...

Responsibility educates.

Ours is no ordinary calling. Great opportunities and privileges have been bestowed upon us. To us, a...

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise me...

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or Amer...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...

In dreams begins responsibility.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supp...

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as it...

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the att...

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources g...

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strengt...

Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups,...

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On th...

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-...

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him...

No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.""You're insane, man. You've handed...

Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as i...