Quotes about Responsibility

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

The more consciously and freely we choose an evil, the more responsible we are for it and the more guilty we are of it; this is why spiritual sins like pride are greater in guilt than carnal sins.

It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of the imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you.