Quotes About Responsibility

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

I'm all groan up in America.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.