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Quotes about Responsibility

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
— Ted Deutch
Patients deserve increased price transparency and affordable care, particularly as the system shifts significant costs to them.
— Heather Bresch
I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.
— Eric Garcetti
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For a man does not therefore sin because God foreknew that he would sin. Nay, it cannot be doubted but that it is the man himself who sins when he does sin, because He, whose foreknowledge is infallible, foreknew not that fate, or fortune, or something else would sin, but that the man himself would sin, who, if he wills not, sins not. But if he shall not will to sin, even this did God foreknow.
— St. Augustine
My good deeds are Thine appointments, and Thy gifts; my evil ones are my offences, and Thy judgments.
— St. Augustine
We maintain that when a woman is violated while her soul admits no consent to the iniquity, but remains inviolably chaste, the sin is not hers, but his who violates her.
— St. Augustine
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
— St. Augustine
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
— St. Augustine