Quotes About Responsibility

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

he second most deadly instrument of destruction is the dynamite gun,—the first is the human tongue. The gun merely kills bodies; the tongue kills reputations and, ofttimes, ruins characters. Each gun works alone; each loaded tongue has a hundred accomplices. The havoc of the gun is visible at once. The full evil of the tongue lives through all the years; even the eye of Omniscience might grow tired in tracing it to its finality.

Duty looks at life as a debt to be paid; love sees life as a debt to be collected. Duty is ever paying assessments; love is constantly counting its premiums.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

No man must think that the world was made for him.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

People don't help much.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

Among respectable people a man who took upon himself the cares and expenses of a family before he had secured a regular trade or profession, or had accumulated some capital, and who allowed his wife to lose caste, and his children to be dirty, ragged, and neglected, would be severely blamed by the public opinion of the community. The

A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He has no superior. He

A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and that there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. Who

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

It is the Forgotten Man who is threatened by every extension of the paternal theory of government. It

We are agreed that the son shall not be disgraced even by the crime of the father, much less by the crime of a more distant relative. It

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. The

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On

The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty more or less well. If

He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So

men who are taught to expect Government inspectors to come and take care of them lose all true education in liberty. If

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For

The danger of minding other people's business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his own business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another's affairs. The

Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but