Quotes about Responsibility
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
— James Madison
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
— Laurence Sterne
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
— Pope John Paul II
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
— Oswald Chambers
To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.
— James Kennedy
In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.
— Deepak Chopra
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.