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Quotes About Responsibility

It's human nature, Rainie. We're all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame.
~ Lisa Gardner
Promise me, then: If you ever see my father, if he should ever show up at our front door, you'll kill him first, and ask questions later. He'll never touch Ree. Promise me that, Jason. My husband looked me in the eye. He said, Consider it done.
~ Lisa Gardner
Slivers of privacy in an arrangement where my younger brother is also living, sleeping, waking right beside me. And maybe I don't mind. I protected my baby brother from our father. I led him from our collapsing house. Even now, I have promised us both a better future.
~ Lisa Gardner
They took an oath. I don't believe it was to serve and protect only people who make intelligent life choices.
~ Lisa Gardner
If you won't take your body seriously, how is anyone else supposed to?
~ Lisa Gardner
My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.
~ Lisa Gardner
Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history
~ Lisa Gardner
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.
~ Tony Blair
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.
~ Simon Mainwaring
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
~ Billy Graham
A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
~ Pope Francis
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
~ Theodor Adorno
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
~ Baruch Spinoza
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
~ Chris Hayes
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind
~ Theodore Roosevelt
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
~ William Bernbach
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
~ Henrik Ibsen
I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.
~ John Howard
Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.
~ Georgi Plekhanov
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
~ Helen Thomas
Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.
~ Tony Evans
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
~ Edgard Varese