Quotes About Responsibility

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Every man ought in every way to guard himself against doing wrong . . . And if he . . . does wrong, he ought of his own accord to go where he will be immediately punished; he will run to the judge, as he would to the physician, in order that the disease of injustice may not be rendered chronic and become the incurable cancer of the soul.

First, I think that if our rulers and their auxiliaries are to be worthy of the name which they bear, there must be willingness to obey in the one and the power of command in the other; the guardians must themselves obey the laws, and they must also imitate the spirit of them in any details which are entrusted to their care. That is right, he said. You

Yes, I said; and there cannot be any worse fault in a guardian of the State and of the laws. True. The guardian then, I said, must be required to take the longer circuit, and toil at learning as well as at gymnastics, or he will never reach the highest knowledge of all which, as we were just now saying, is his proper calling. What

On the other hand, I can't not defend her, since I can't help feeling it is wrong to stand idly by when I hear justice coming under attack, and not come to her defence for as long as I have breath in my body and a tongue in my head. So the best thing is to make what defence I can.

The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.

The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of government, is to live under the government of worse men.

whether in battle or in a court of law, or in any other place, he must do what his city and his country order him; or he must change their view of what is just:

the greatest of penalties is being ruled by a worse man if one is not willing to rule oneself. It is because they fear this, in my view, that decent men rule, when they do rule; and at that time they proceed to enter on rule, not as though they were going to something good, or as though they were going to be well off in it; but they enter on it as a necessity and because they have no one better than or like themselves to whom to turn it over.

For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.

T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first to the young plants, and after that to the others. - Socrates

no one is willing to govern; because no one likes to take in hand the reformation of evils which are not his concern without renumeration.

the true ruler is not meant by nature to regard his own interest, but that of his subjects

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

Jamais enganar alguém ou mentir, ainda que inadvertidamente, nem ser devedor, quer de sacrifícios aos deuses, quer de dinheiro a uma pessoa, e depois falecer sem nada recear.

Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser—God is justified.