Quotes about Responsibility
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
— John Milton
Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
— Albert Ellis
You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
— Corrie Ten Boom
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
— George H. W. Bush
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
— Wendell Berry
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
— Pope John Paul II
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
— Wendell Berry
Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
— George H. W. Bush
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
— Leonard Sweet