Quotes About Responsibility

Look what the mortals are doing to themselves. Look at what they've done to the world. They're bleeding the planet dry. They're poisoning the air, the land and the sea, and they know exactly what they're doing,

So not only have we Darquesse on the loose, and not only do we have nineteen supercharged sorcerers running around, and virtually every Sanctuary on the planet in a state of chaos, but now we have twenty-three days to decide who's going to kill themselves to save the world? How the hell are we meant to manage any of that? - Vex

You have no idea what it is you're saying at any given moment, do you? You think just as long as you're issuing orders, you're a leader.

Those are dangerous words you speak." "Well then," Wreath said, "it's a good thing you're not in charge, or I'd really be in trouble, wouldn't I?

The world is a dangerous place. In order for people like you to live in relative safety, there need to be people like me.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]