Quotes About Responsibility

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Men make history, not the other way around.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.