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.
Jeb BushRadical 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 IICharacter 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 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 HeideggerFor 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 BrowerBaby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Elizabeth AdamsonAs an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
Al D'AmatoBut 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 LivingstonePatriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill (The Colonel's Daughter)
Richard AldingtonResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel DorfmanThe first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max DepreeTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonI have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility...
King Edward VIIIThe 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 StoppardMan must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer Software 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-LeeFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranThe young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.
Tim HenmanWe have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
Allen JohnsonThe 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 SimpsonPower is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean BaudrillardYou 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 CurieSince we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
Joy AdamsonIt'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 understand it's my responsibility to uphold the spirit of the game
[on yet another fine for dissent - is he fit to captain?]
Ricky PontingI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta KingAs 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 ToynbeeGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganIt'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
EminemI'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 BloomThe 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 BerlusconiAs 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 BoswellI feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
David EddingsIt'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 BeauvoirWhen 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 game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael JordanRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter F DruckerThe fact is that democracy brings with it a serious element of responsibility and all parties have to accept that fact to move forward.
Daniel GreenbergA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanWe 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 What on earth is he going to get paid for? [on John Prescott keeping all his favours for zero departmental responsibility]
Kate HoeyIn 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 FisherResponsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert HubbardAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsIt is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation.
Brian BairdEvery right implies a responsibility. Every opportunity, an obligation. Every possession, a duty.
John D RockefellerOne can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto CelliniYou 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 federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
Bob EtheridgeI'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Thomas Nagel
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