Quotes about Responsibility
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
— Nelson Mandela
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.
— Albert Mohler
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
— Justin Welby
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
— Joseph Campbell
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
— Margaret Mead
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel