Quotes About Responsibility

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.