Quotes About Responsibility

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.