Quotes About Responsibility

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

For we put the power in the people.

All political power is a trust.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.