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Quotes About Responsibility

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!
~ Leon Bourgeois
The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'
~ Charles Graner
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.
~ Charles L. Allen
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
~ Chinua Achebe
Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
~ Colin Powell
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death
~ Confucius
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
~ David McCullough
All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.
~ David Weber
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
~ Diogenes Laertius
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions
~ Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!
~ Duane Chapman
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
~ E. W. Howe
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
~ Edith Hamilton
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
~ Edmund Burke
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
~ Edward Abbey
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
~ Erich Fromm
All men know their children mean more than life.
~ Euripides
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
~ Euripides
A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.
~ Evan Esar
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
~ Francis Bacon
Always blame conditions, not men
~ Frank Norris
In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.
~ Frederick Exley
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche