Quotes About Responsibility

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

The larger lesson is that technological development does not necessarily mean civilized values ~~ we all have to remain on guard. Humans, unlike robots, have the power to choose how to behave.

The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one…. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

There was more wickedness in the world than you thought and you've stirred it up and got it on you, ain't ye?

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.