Quotes about Responsibility
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.
— John F. Kennedy
The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
— John F. Kennedy
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
— Cicero
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
— Pope John Paul II
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr