If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van BurenAn individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-PowellWe have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
Allen JohnsonResponsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert HubbardBut 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.
Ken LivingstoneAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsRadical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul IIOne can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto CelliniIt'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.
Simone De BeauvoirFor how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
David BrowerBut 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.
Jeb BushI believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
Brendan FraserWhen I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.
Gates McFaddenThe day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
O J SimpsonSome pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.
David WinnickResponsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
Frank CraneMen don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
Julie ChristieWhen the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith HamiltonHe treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.
Kieron DyerIt is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation.
Brian BairdThe political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
Silvio BerlusconiThis is about shifting habits and attitudes and asking people to take responsibility for what is in their coffee cup. The bottom line is that if farmers don’t get a fair price for their coffee they will starve.
Claire GooseI've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Orlando BloomIn a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey FisherAs human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold ToynbeeYou cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie CuriePower is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean BaudrillardThe young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.
Tim HenmanWhatever happens, take responsibility.
Anthony RobbinsThe federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
Bob EtheridgeResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel DorfmanIt's not about using the stage as a platform to preach. It's about people coming together with the responsibility to do something. Hopefully, they'll be galvanised.
James BluntI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta KingA baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganPatriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill (The Colonel's Daughter)
Richard AldingtonEvery right implies a responsibility. Every opportunity, an obligation. Every possession, a duty.
John D RockefellerWe 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.
Richard Feynman Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter F DruckerTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonThe Führer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin HeideggerLife is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony RobbinsYou cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie CurieThe House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom StoppardIt's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope.
Richard NixonAs a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it.
Leonard BoswellGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganSince we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
Joy AdamsonThe fact is that democracy brings with it a serious element of responsibility and all parties have to accept that fact to move forward.
Daniel GreenbergWhat on earth is he going to get paid for? [on John Prescott keeping all his favours for zero departmental responsibility]
Kate HoeySoftware companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.
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