Quotes about Responsibility

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Whatever you have received more than others in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life, all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. You must pay a price for it. You must render in return an unusually great sacrifice of your life for other life.