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Quotes About Responsibility

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
~ C. S. Lewis
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
~ Pliny the Younger
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.
~ Mordecai Richler
Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.
~ Enson Inoue
The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.
~ Dennis Rainey
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
~ Confucius
Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.
~ George S. Patton
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
~ Douglas Hurd
A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.
~ Stephen Crane
Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
~ Luke the Evangelist
No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.
~ Harry S. Truman
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
~ Wesley Snipes
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
~ B. B. King