Quotes about Responsibility
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
— Henry David Thoreau
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
— Henry Ward Beecher