Responsibility Quotes - page 81

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do. (Chris Colfer)
You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably. View quote
Jon Stewart
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery. View quote
Helen Hayes
Love responsibility. Say: "It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
At every moment of crisis an array of men risk their lives in the front ranks as standard-bearers of God to fight and take upon themselves the whole responsibility of the battle. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
American statesmanship, worthy of the name, is now taxing its energies to frame measures to meet the demands of constantly increasing expansion of power, responsibility and duty. Without fault or merit on either side, theirs or ours, the balance is largely in our favor. Like the grand old forests, renewed and enriched from decaying trunks once full of life and beauty, but now moss-covered, oozy and crumbling, we are destined to grow and flourish while they decline and fade. View quote
Frederick Douglass
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. View quote
Alice Walker
We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice. View quote
Ed Miliband
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws – poorly understood and applied – are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness. (Anaïs Nin)
When reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard. View quote
Ken Livingstone
A composer's awareness of the plurality of functions of his own tools forms the basis for his responsibility just as, in everyday life, every man's responsibility begins with the recognition of the multiplicity of human races, conditions, needs, and ideals. I would go as far as to say (as my anger comes back) that any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fetishism which shares with Fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance. View quote
Luciano Berio
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. View quote
Jeb Bush
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government. View quote
Amy Klobuchar
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. View quote
John Kerry
Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free. View quote
John Foster Dulles
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced. View quote
Twiggy
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility. (Chelsea Clinton)
True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for? View quote
Lu Xun
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life. View quote
Gloria Steinem
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now. View quote
Nicole Richie