Quotes About Responsibility

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

Power's twin is responsibility.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

The conscience of a people is their power.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

Power is neither good nor evil.