Quotes about Responsibility

Forgiveness is not reconciliation. It takes one sinner to repent, and one victim to forgive, but it takes both to reconcile. Therefore, unless there is both repentance by the sinner and forgiveness by the victim, reconciliation cannot occur

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

To a great extent the world is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability