Quotes About Responsibility

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.