Quotes About Responsibility

We owe infinitely more to Christ than any brother can owe to us:

On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.

Don't any of you go taking any notice of the Government's promises. They will tell you anything to get you in but when you "do your bit" as they call it, you will soon be forgotten and so will the promises – don't you forget that. Now you must do as you think right.

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.

It requires a strong sense of responsibility to be a good functionary. In situations involving obedience to authority, people carry out orders partly to honor the obligations they have undertaken. One must, therefore, distinguish between two levels of responsibility—duty to one's superiors, and accountability for the effects of one's actions.

It requires conducive social conditions, rather than monstrous people, to produce heinous deeds.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

Life is the sum of all your choices.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.