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Quotes About Responsibility

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
~ Charles de Gaulle
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.
~ Charles Morgan, Jr.
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
~ Clifford D. Simak
A staff can be no better than the man it serves.
~ David Halberstam
Every man should see the birth of his children
~ Dennis Banks
Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.
~ Donald Trump
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
~ E. B. White
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
~ Edmund Burke
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
~ Edmund Burke
By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
~ Epictetus
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.
~ Epicurus
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.
~ Eric Hoffer
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
~ Euripides
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.
~ Evan Esar
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
~ Frederic Farrar
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
~ George Canning
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?
~ George McGovern
After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
~ George Orwell