Quotes About Responsibility

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Nature always levies her tribute.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.