Quotes About Responsibility

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.