Quotes about Responsibility
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
— Wendell Berry
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
— Jane Goodall
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
— Martin Luther
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
— Gordon Hinckley
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
— Coco Chanel
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
— Pope John Paul II
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
— Wendell Berry
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
— Toni Morrison
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill