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Quotes About Responsibility

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
~ Herb Adderley
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.
~ Herbert Croly
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
~ Hesiod
Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.
~ Hilari Bell
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
~ Homer
Forget the brother and resume the man.
~ Homer
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
~ Honore de Balzac
When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.
~ Hugh Howey
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.
~ Hugh Howey
I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
~ Hugh Jackman
Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.
~ Hugh Nibley
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
~ Ihara Saikaku
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.
~ Ilana Mercer
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
~ Isaiah Berlin
We are not men, but promises of men.
~ Ivan Panin
A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
~ J. I. Packer
I'll call you," Manny said. "You do that, my man. You frickin' do that." -Manny to V
~ J.R. Ward
Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
~ Jacob Bronowski
A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
~ James A. Baldwin