Quotes about Responsibility

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Those who can command themselves command others.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please. As the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it: "If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.

It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.