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Quotes About Responsibility

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.
~ Jimmy Carter
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
~ George C. Marshall
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
~ Paul Farmer
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Our responsibility begins with our imagination.
~ Haruki Murakami
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
~ Publilius Syrus
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.
~ Derek Parfit
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
~ Leonard Orr
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
~ David E. Kelley
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
~ Terry Pratchett
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
~ Haim Ginott
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
~ Alfie Kohn
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
~ Chinua Achebe
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached
~ Kenneth Grahame
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
~ Erma Bombeck
One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
~ Plato, The Republic
Since 1857 we know what we are capable of, And Since 1947 we know what is at Stake.
~ Mishra Ankit
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
~ Ronald Reagan
I don't want to have to save your life, ' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.
~ Elsie Chapman, Dualed