Quotes About Responsibility

The problem is not just the exploitation of women by men. A greater problem is that women and men alike are consenting to an economy that exploits women and men and everything else.

There can be no such thing as a "global village." No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it.

For agrarians, the correct response is to stand confidently on our fundamental premise, which is both democratic and ecological: the land is a gift of immeasurable value. If it is a gift, then it is a gift to all the living in all time. To withhold it from some is finally to destroy it for all. For a few powerful people to own or control it all, or decide its fate, is wrong.

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.

A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

The White House elected to power in November 2008 campaigned on compelling promises of hope, change, and bringing the nation together. The reality it delivered for eight years was rather different: a brand of leadership that was narcissistic, aggressively secular, ideologically divisive, resistant to compromise, unwilling to accept responsibility for its failures, and generous in spreading blame. As

The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.

In fact for the Founders, under the natural law, even a sovereign people were accountable to God's judgment and had the duty to act in accord with the moral order of creation. As

We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.

Gus Lee, who later wrote Honor and Duty

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

How did a movement that was defined by its belief in individual liberty and respect for the Constitution, free markets, personal responsibility, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing a stew of nativism, populism, and nationalism?

If it wasn't one thing it was another, and it never mattered which. Always something to run away from, no matter what, no matter why, as though you'd been born with a consciousness of guilt and would find that thing to feel guilty about regardless.

All political power is a trust.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.

There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.