Quotes About Responsibility

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.