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Quotes About Responsibility

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
~ Confucius
Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
~ Ernst Kaltenbrunner
The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.
~ Evan Esar
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
~ Francis Bacon
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
~ George Steiner
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
~ Georges Bernanos
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
~ Aeschylus
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
~ Albert Goodwill Spalding
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
~ Anthony Trollope
You don't mow another man's lawn!
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.
~ Enoch L. Johnson
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
~ Hesiod
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
~ James Allen
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.
~ Lin Yutang