Quotes About Responsibility

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

People must not believe in rumours. Even those who are spreading rumours and fake news must realize that they are not only disturbing others, but also putting their own lives at risk.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

There is no 'us' and 'them'; it's an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care of my cat?

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.