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Quotes About Responsibility

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.
~ Christian Morgenstern
Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
~ Olusegun Obasanjo
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
~ Jean Houston
People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
~ Roxane Gay
Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
~ David Attenborough
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
~ Hakim Bey
We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity "It's your move.
~ Bob Goff
The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.
~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
~ Alice Walker
The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
~ Rick Yancey
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
~ Rowan Williams
If You Don't Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
~ James Larkin
Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.
~ Michael Jai White
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~ Jean Rostand
Animal protection is education to the humanity.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.
~ Bill Mollison
I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.
~ Pope Francis