Quotes About Responsibility

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

A child is an angel dependent on man

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. 'Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I need to put bread on the table man

The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.