Quotes About Responsibility

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

American society has gone completely into denial.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.