Quotes About Responsibility

We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.

It's really cool to do, like, a 'Harry Potter' evolution because you can really take your time with the character development: really, like, don't rush past the implications of great power and great responsibility.

When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.

Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.