Quotes about responsibility
responsibility government engines
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government. Thomas Jefferson
responsibility intelligent people
Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life. Thomas Keating
responsibility thinking digital
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility. Rebecca MacKinnon
responsibility medicine suffering
Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
responsibility abuse weak
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. Vince Cable
responsibility government law
So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue. Vicente Fox
responsibility army fighting
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
responsibility giving forever
You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give Vernon Jordan
responsibility people choices
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. Stephen Covey
responsibility liberty west-coast
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Viktor E. Frankl
responsibility men unfinished-work
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
responsibility men law
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it. Vannevar Bush
responsibility rivers taking-responsibility
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. Vaclav Havel
responsibility important climate
Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
responsibility careers patriotism
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
responsibility order civilization
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.
responsibility guilt done
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong Tryon Edwards
responsibility people political
Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power. Suzanne Collins
responsibility needs limits
You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need to understand what led to it. In general, if it is our responsibility to condemn terrorist actions after they had happened, we have an even greater responsibility beforehand to make sure they won't happen. Tariq Ramadan
responsibility political intellectual
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.
responsibility writing acting
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life. Stephen Lang
responsibility gun car
If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners? Stephen King
responsibility artist work-out
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality. Stephanie Mills
responsibility practice vision
To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision. Starhawk
responsibility links action
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. Stanley Milgram
responsibility thinking giving
I think it's a responsibility for everyone to give back. Stacy Keibler
responsibility men able
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility. Soren Kierkegaard
responsibility snakes blame
Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts. Stephen White
responsibility exercise might
Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility. Tammy Bruce
responsibility together aging
I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. Tabare Vazquez
responsibility fate evil
If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. Swami Vivekananda
responsibility self people
Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities. Rosalynn Carter
responsibility firsts turns
I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours. Rosario Dawson