Quotes About Responsibility

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.

It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them.

The Convention promulgated this great axiom: The liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins, which comprises in two lines the entire law of human society.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

He said, moreover, Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.

Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the best of men or he would be the worst of men; that he now had to rise higher, so to speak, than the bishop or fall even lower than the galley slave; that if he wanted to be good, he had to be an angel; that if he wanted to stay bad, he had to be a monster from hell?

The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.

There is a crime commited by the society against the individual,a crime that is commited afresh each day

True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.

Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness.

A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?

When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.

Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.

Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable

No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness, — places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience, — and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.

Ensinem o mais possível aos que nada sabem; a sociedade é culpada de não instruir gratuitamente e responderá pela escuridão que provoca. Uma alma na sombra da ignorância comete um pecado? A culpa não é de quem o faz, mas de quem provocou a sombra.

Me, I'm much more than the master, I am the father.