Quotes About Responsibility

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

No generation can escape history.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.