Responsibility Quotes - Page 80

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.

"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy. The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.

I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

I like the influence and responsibility the Red Cross has become known for.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.