Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsIf you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van BurenI 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 FraserPower is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean BaudrillardRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter F DruckerWhat on earth is he going to get paid for? [on John Prescott keeping all his favours for zero departmental responsibility]
Kate HoeyThe 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 BerlusconiIt'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 NixonResponsibility 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 CraneYou 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 StoppardA baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganI have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility...
King Edward VIIIIt'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 BluntIt is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation.
Brian BairdOne can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto CelliniThe first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max DepreeRadical 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 IIAn individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-PowellWhatever happens, take responsibility.
Anthony RobbinsWhen 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 McFaddenYou 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 CurieI feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
David EddingsTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel DorfmanThe 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 HeideggerHe 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 DyerSome 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 WinnickAs 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 BoswellResponsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert HubbardWe have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
Allen JohnsonEvery right implies a responsibility. Every opportunity, an obligation. Every possession, a duty.
John D RockefellerSince we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
Joy AdamsonI stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Grace AbbottBut 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 LivingstoneThe federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
Bob EtheridgeFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranI'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Thomas NagelI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta KingThe hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson AlgrenPatriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill (The Colonel's Daughter)
Richard AldingtonAs 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 ToynbeeCharacter isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim RohnThe game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael JordanSoftware 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.
Tim Berners-LeeThe 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 SimpsonMen don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
Julie ChristieBut 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 BushBaby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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