Quotes About Responsibility

We do have the power to save one another...

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

Never give power of attorney.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.