Responsibility Quotes

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A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be… — Hugh W. Pinnock
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. — Edward Abbey
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, — Thomas Jefferson
In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together. — Angela Merkel
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn… — Carl Rogers
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it?… — Abraham Maslow
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. — Erich Fromm
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each… — Viktor E. Frankl
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what… — William James
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes… — William James
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save… — Hannah Arendt
And with privilege goes responsibility. — John F. Kennedy
The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best… — George McGovern
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become… — Mike Huckabee
The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save… — Thom Yorke
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are… — Robert Rauschenberg
There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and… — Morrie Schwartz

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