Quotes About Responsibility

It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.

Un citoyen ignoré par l'administration est, d'une certaine façon, voué à la non-existence. Il ne faut toutefois pas ignorer qu'une personne privée de ses droits n'a nul devoir à accomplir.

A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State.

For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name.

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

God gave animals a lower rank, in the service of man.

No, I wasn't going to refer to cowardice. What I was going to say was, that a man contemplating suicide should bear in mind that his act is usually paid for by others. It is not just his personal affair. Everyone who takes his or her own life increases the fear in all his progeny of committing the same act during a period of depression. In fact, every blood relation he possesses gets a drop of the same poison. Nice parting gift.

I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all wine out of the country, lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

On our planet, there are people. One people is a person. You are a person. You have a body. Look after it, as most bits don't grow back.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.