Quotes About Responsibility

A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.

When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.