Responsibility Quotes - page 3

When I hear the words "social responsibility", I want to reach for my gun. (Eric S. Raymond)
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. View quote
Jonas Salk
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions. View quote
Jacques Chirac
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it. View quote
Carrie Underwood
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. View quote
Coretta Scott King
I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. View quote
Ann Richards
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. View quote
Richard Bach
The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities. (Richard Bach)
Art to me is a humanitarian act, and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to affect mankind, to make the word a better place. View quote
Jeff Koons
This solution has great superficial appeal--all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness. View quote
Benjamin Spock
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. View quote
Gary Snyder
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever happens, take responsibility. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. View quote
Helen Keller
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. View quote
Richard Feynman
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. (Dan Quayle)
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. View quote
Erich Fromm
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. View quote
Thomas Szasz
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir