Quotes about Responsibility
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
— Albert Camus
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
— Mother Teresa
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
— George Washington
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
— Toni Morrison
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
— Aristotle
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
— Ronald Reagan