Quotes about Responsibility
The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.
— Ray Comfort
To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
— Rowan Williams
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
— Clayton M. Christensen
You have to choose your future regrets.
— Christopher Hitchens
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)
— Victor Hugo
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
— Victor Hugo
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
— Victor Hugo
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
— Victor Hugo
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
— Victor Hugo
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
— Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
— Victor Hugo