Quotes About Responsibility

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

A man thinking with the core of his heart is always willing to change to accept his mistakes while others just crib and duck the mistakes to find fault with others only.

As man acts, God reacts.

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.