Quotes About Responsibility

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.