Quotes About Responsibility

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom are they responsible? How do we, the public, the recipients of welfare, punish them if they make mistakes or become corrupt?

I care a lot about animal welfare and children. Although I don't have children myself.

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.

As the Prime Minister of India, Modiji is as much responsible for the welfare of Punjab as I am and his political affiliations are really not material when it comes to the betterment of any State or its people, including Punjab.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

We cannot be the welfare state of the planet.

The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

Personal accountability and responsibility is dying. Long live the Democrat welfare state.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

Think well before selecting your leader, and when you have selected him, follow him. But in case you find his policy detrimental to your interests, kick him out.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

To some extent, 'The Wall' is asking the question, 'Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it's not going to be handed to you on a plate.'

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.