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Quotes About Responsibility

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
~ Hesiod
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
~ Hesiod
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
~ Holly Near
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
~ Horace
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
~ Horace
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
~ J. G. Holland
The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity
~ J. Lawton Collins
Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
~ J. P. Morgan
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
~ Jack Nicholson
The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.
~ Jacob Braude
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
~ Jacques Attali
Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.
~ Jacques Monod
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
~ James Allen
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
~ James Anthony Froude
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation
~ James Hillman
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
~ James Russell Lowell
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
~ Jesse Jackson
In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.
~ Joe Pantoliano
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be active is the primary vocation of man.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
~ John Barrymore
A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.
~ John Ciardi