Quotes about Responsibility
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
— Victor Hugo
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
— Victor Hugo
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
— Victor Hugo
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
— Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
He said, moreover, Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow. It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for the night with it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. (Bishop of D)
— Victor Hugo
Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.
— Victor Hugo
Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel
— Victor Hugo