Quotes About Responsibility

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.