Quotes About Responsibility

Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people

Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people, rather than to follow bureaucratic regulations.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

A child was a brief and blissful interlude of responsibility, not a thing to be owned.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet but from moral standards as well.

L]iberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence...

Where the riches are engrossed by a few, these must contribute very largely to the supplying of the public necessities.

He made not even the briefest mention, indeed no mention at all, of the Nazis' extermination of Europe's Jews.

Papal timidity becomes ever more blatantly despicable.

talking about what people ought to do, instead of giving some kind of lead in condemning what they are actually doing.

continuing the new pope's policy of remaining silent about the issue.

It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.

If you are offended at anything and have your emotions stressed as a result, it is you who have chosen to be offended. It's a thought form, a state of mind, which you are in control of.

As Hitler quipped to his staff, Beck was only ever able to make up his mind when his decision was against doing something!)

It's good business to provide a good work/life balance by never overloading your teams.

Making love" denoted the manufacture of something that would need to be maintained.

It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.

When things go wrong in a child's world, children believe it is their fault. They believe there is something they should have done or perhaps something they can do that will fix it. The problem with that belief is that it is a lie.

Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?

There is a sadness that only hunters know, a moment when lament overshadows any desire for celebration. Life is sustained by death, and though going to the field is an act of taking responsibility for that fact, the killing is not easy, nor should it be.

Human authorities will exercise authority rightly only if they acknowledge the authority of God over them.

If every American school taught the Bill of Rights in a clear and compelling way, if every child knew the fundamental rules that guide the relationships between the individual and the state, then every citizen would eventually feel the reflexive need to resist every violation. We had better begin now, for rights that are not invoked are eventually abandoned.

Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.