Quotes About Responsibility

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

Use wisely your power of choice.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Marjani has never had a sip of alcohol in her life, but she stinks of beer like a Supreme Court justice in college when she comes back to check on me Saturday nights.

Wir alle stehen in Verbindung miteinander, nicht nur sozial und auf körperlicher Ebene, sondern auch über den Strom unserer Gedanken und Emotionen, die einander durchdringen .... Verantwortungsgefühl, Verständnis, Mitgefühl, Liebe, Nicht-Verletzen - das sind die wahren Glieder der Kette, die uns verbindet, und sie müssen in unseren Herzen geschmiedet werden.

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.