Quotes About Responsibility

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Man cannot choose his duties.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.