Quotes About Responsibility

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.