Quotes About Responsibility

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Draft beer, not people.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for securing individual profit without individual responsibility.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

It's really the cat's house — we just pay the mortgage.

In general, we have as natural a right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

He that has no children brings them up well.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

Don't let house or garden climb on your back and stick there. And unclutter your mind from any idea that you have to do a thousand things before other people do them.

Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.

We have been led to think that to drink is manly, and to get in a condition where common sense has fled and the tongue is tangled is funny...

The challenges we face are far too big to be solved by a few chosen people. It's all of our jobs to work for each other now. To believe in our own efficacy to help our communities. Not to solve the problems of the world, but to help the people around us in any and every way we can. That feels right to me.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

Reviewers are forever telling authors, they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

Borrowing is the mother of trouble.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.