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Quotes about Responsibility

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
— John Lennon
We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We tell her, home is the only place she should be Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend
— John Lennon
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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