Quotes About Responsibility

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.