Quotes about Responsibility

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.