Quotes About Responsibility

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

Be the change that you want to see

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

Born free. Taxed to death.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

You have to choose your future regrets.

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.