Quotes About Responsibility

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.