Quotes About Responsibility

A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.