Quotes About Responsibility

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The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one's own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are permanently adolescent.

was Aristotle who said that a man who committed an offence while intoxicated was doubly guilty: first of the offence itself, and second of having intoxicated himself.

pride must be in the work, not the person.

To paraphrase Burke, all that is necessary for barbarism to triumph is for civilised men to do nothing: but in fact for the past few decades, civilised men have done worse than nothing—they have actively thrown in their lot with the barbarians.

They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.

A man may despise himself for being as he is, but that does not absolve him of the responsibility for being as he is.

But life is not a matter of double-entry book-keeping. No number of years in prison can be equivalent to the torture and killing of children: if it were, the term could be served in advance and the person who served it would be entitled to commit his crimes on his release.

learned that there is no more heartless saying than that the people get the government they deserve

We have sunk to a depth in which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

In a democratic age, only the behaviour of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. This is a modern version of Rousseau's doctrine: if it weren't for the authorities, the people would be good.

The prevention of evil will always require more than desirable social arrangements: it will forever require personal self-control and the conscious limitation of appetites.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

The provision of charity as of right destroyed the motive for human solidarity in the face of hardship, and undermined both ties of personal affection and the sense of duty toward close relations. Intended as an expression of social responsibility, it liberated selfishness.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

The best politics for any president is to be a good president.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.