Quotes about Responsibility

You are the foundation of any change that will happen in your society. A student asked Thay, "There are so many urgent problems. What should I do?" Thay answered calmly, "Take one thing, and do it very deeply and carefully, and you will be doing everything at the same time." Knowing

We transmit our thoughts, speech and actions - collectively known as our karma to our children and to the world, that is our future.

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.