Quotes About Responsibility

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

When you think about people, you give them power.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.

There's no way to use power for good.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.