Responsibility Quotes

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.

Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.