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Quotes About Responsibility

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
~ Mohammed Morsi
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.
~ Billy Bishop
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
~ John L. Lewis
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.
~ George McGovern
It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!
~ John Mellencamp
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
~ James Bryce
My actions are my only true belongings.
~ Nhat Hanh
Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
~ Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
~ Dalai Lama
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
~ Martin Amis
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
~ Thomas Tusser
The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.
~ Sun Tzu
Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.
~ Sylvia Earle
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
~ James A. Garfield
We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.
~ Ronald Reagan
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
~ Garry Wills
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
~ Peace Pilgrim
If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.
~ Dan B. Allender
There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.
~ Brad Pitt
Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
~ Stephen Levine
The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
~ Barack Obama
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
~ Michael Rosen