Some things are a dying art in this country, particularly the idea of individual responsibility and dignity.
Andrew GoodmanIf you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van BurenOne can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto CelliniI'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Thomas NagelAs an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
Al D'AmatoI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta KingSince 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 BluntDon't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out.
Donald RumsfeldIt is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation.
Brian BairdI 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 AbbottTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonBaby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Elizabeth AdamsonWe 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 The 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 SimpsonThe 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 HeideggerIt'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 NixonPower is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean BaudrillardResponsibility 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 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 CurieThe fact is that democracy brings with it a serious element of responsibility and all parties have to accept that fact to move forward.
Daniel GreenbergIt is hard to imagine a greater responsibility and honour [than being given this job by Gordon Brown which was a big surprise to everyone]
Jacqui SmithPatriotism 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 ToynbeeWhen 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 McFaddenIt'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 BeauvoirThe 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 We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
Allen JohnsonI have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility...
King Edward VIIIThe young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.
Tim HenmanAs 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 BoswellFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranFor 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 BrowerThe game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael JordanIn 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 FisherWhen the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith HamiltonI understand it's my responsibility to uphold the spirit of the game
[on yet another fine for dissent - is he fit to captain?]
Ricky PontingA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanI'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 BloomA baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonThe 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 AlgrenAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsBut 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 BushLife is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony RobbinsGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganThe federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
Bob EtheridgeI feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
David EddingsResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel Dorfman
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