Responsibility Quotes - Page 131

Whether you have a hundred friends on Facebook or whether you're on TV or whatever, at every level, everybody has a platform. We all have a responsibility, given what's going on, to speak using that platform as much as we can, and to engage. Whether that's calling members of Congress, marching, getting involved locally, getting involved with Let America Vote, or if all you can get done during the day is you see the news and you want to make sure your hundred friends on Facebook know what you think about it, that is a really important part of this.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

If we don't take responsibility for ourselves, someone else will take it for you.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.