Quotes About Responsibility

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.