Responsibility Quotes - page 83

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. (Pope Benedict XVI)
Responsibility has increased at times. We have no right to be in depression. We must pull ourselves out at any cost. We have a unique chance and we have no moral right to lose it. We have no right to lose Ukraine! View quote
Vasyl Slipak
If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down. View quote
Kevin Spacey
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want. View quote
Christopher Nolan
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de siFcle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way. View quote
Camille Paglia
I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have. View quote
Margaret Cho
My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility. View quote
Margaret Cho
This problem is, without exception, the most urgent confronting humanity today. The future of the race lies in the hands of the young people everywhere. They are the parents of the coming generations and the engineers who must implement the new civilization. What we do with them and for them is momentous in its implications; our responsibility is great and our opportunity unique. View quote
Alice Bailey
Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you. View quote
Anton LaVey
The judge said he disliked to sentence the lad; it seemed the wrong thing to do; but the law left him no option. I was struck by this. The judge, then, was doing something as an official that he would not dream of doing as a man; and he could do it without any sense of responsibility, or discomfort, simply because he was acting as an official and not as a man. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it - the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers - felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials. (Albert Jay Nock)
In recent years a number of politicians have behaved disgracefully and then compounded their offences by trying to evade responsibility. We all know who they are. Let's face it, some of them have stood on this platform. View quote
Theresa May
If only one could ... But it required strength. The romantic life had been too hard for her. In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak. The small state, racked by internal dissension, invites the foreign conqueror. Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity. View quote
Chris Cornell
In the hands of woman lies the salvation of humanity and of our planet. Woman must realize her significance, the great mission of the Mother of the World; she should be prepared to take responsibility for the destiny of humanity. View quote
Helena Roerich
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. View quote
James Baldwin
Economically speaking, all anarchists are socialists, however they may coalesce to the political spectrum. Economically speaking, the libertarian is an individualist, believing in and supporting the concept of private ownership, individual responsibility and self-government. View quote
Robert LeFevre
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. (Dorothy Allison)
Eichmann was personally a cowardly man, who was at great pains to protect himself from responsibility... He was amoral and completely ice cold in his attitude. View quote
Adolf Eichmann
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. View quote
Anne Lamott
He is extremely intelligent and has a great sense of responsibility. I've seen, in the past few years, he has managed several crises with extreme dignity and wisdom. View quote
John Elkann