Quotes About Responsibility

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.

To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.

As God in Genesis 1 is no imperious warrior, so human beings are not conquerors of creation. The language of dominion lacks all sense of exploitation (1:26, 28). The hoarding of resources is implicitly forbidden in the account: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees are granted to animals and humans alike (1:30). Absent is any hint of the savage competition for resources. God's gift of sustenance is one of abundance, not scarcity, to be shared, not hoarded.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.

The public must and will be served.

It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

Não, costumo vez a possessão nas coisas, Damien. Nas picuinhas e nos desentendimentos; na palavra cruel e cortante que salta livre à língua entre amigos. Entre namorados. Entre marido e mulher. Temos muito disso e não precisamos de Satanás para criar nossas guerras. Conseguimos criá-las sozinhos... Sozinhos.

And inwardly raged at this portion of his being that so frequently rendered him helpless in the face of someone's plea; that he could not control; that lay coiled within him like a length of rope, always ready to fling itself out to rescue at the call of someone else's need. It gave him no peace. Not even in sleep.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

The threat is real, and we as Americans must face that threat, prepare, and know what to do to prevent it. For if we do not, "one second after," the America we know, cherish, and love will be gone forever.