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Quotes About Responsibility

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
~ Stanley Schmidt
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
~ Paul MacCready
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
~ Les Wexner
I will create value for society, rather than extract it.
~ John C. Bogle
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
~ Billy Graham
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
~ Pope John Paul II
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?
~ Dan Brown
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
~ Charles Dickens
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
~ Alisher Usmanov
Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.
~ John G. Miller
Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
~ Jacob K. Javits
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
~ James Madison
Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.
~ Carlos Slim
In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.
~ John Henrik Clarke
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
~ Claudio Hummes
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
~ Anthony Fauci
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
~ Martin Yan
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
~ Alexis Carrel