Quotes About Responsibility

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

What is power without control?

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.