Quotes about Responsibility

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

All we hear is "What's the matter with the country?" "What's the matter with the world?" There ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world, and that's selfishness.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also creates the tools with which he will build for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peach. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master.