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Quotes About Responsibility

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
~ Shirley Manson
All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.
~ Kanye West
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
~ Jules Massenet
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
~ Jaron Lanier
We were cowards when we sacked him.
~ John Lennon
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
~ Hippocrates
We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.
~ Prince Ea
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
~ Rachel Carson
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
~ Thomas Berry
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
~ Chief Seattle
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.
~ David Suzuki
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
~ Aldo Leopold
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
~ Democritus
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
~ Wendell Berry
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
~ Gaylord Nelson
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
~ Carlo Petrini
It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they're not easy, nature didn't give them to us - we have to learn them.
~ Paul Ekman
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~ William Ruckelshaus
Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.
~ B. J. Palmer
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
~ Stephen Jay Gould