Quotes About Responsibility

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

Well, I offer a retuning of intention, a slightly more sober directive—to be of a place, to labour under a related indebtedness to a stretch of earth that you have not claimed but which has claimed you.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

Men's lot in life is endless hard work whose fruits will be consumed largely by others. The more men bring in, the greater the demands. Should men fail, they may lose both what they made and those to whom they gave it. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Melville's story is that, at times, Bartleby's behavior and fate can tempt even the most active and successful man.

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

The two most powerful nations had been squared off against each other," Khrushchev stated, "each with its finger on the button." "It is insane," Kennedy said, "that two men sitting on opposite sides of the world should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.