Quotes About Responsibility

Ah, there are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No I recover myself they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

L'humanité gémit, à demi écrasée sous le poids des progrès qu'elle a faits. Elle ne sait pas assez que son avenir dépend d'elle.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Kingdoms are but cares,State is devoid of stay;Riches are ready snares,And hasten to decay.

How else to explain the right-wing charge that the poor, disabled, sick, and elderly are moochers and should fend for themselves? This is not simply an example of a kind of hardening of the culture, it is also part of a machinery of social and civic death that crushes any viable notion of the common good, public life, and the shared bonds and commitments that are necessary for community and democracy.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: they sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

For years we have heard the phrase "every member a missionary." That is not a choice. It is a fact of our membership. Our choice is to speak to others about the gospel or not.