Quotes about Responsibility
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
— Ayn Rand
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
— Eugene Peterson
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
— Thomas Jefferson
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
— Malcolm X
You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.
— John Wooden
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
— Abraham Lincoln
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
— Albert Schweitzer
God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!
— Francis Chan